Reed claims that she heard Cara begin to cry after she had been gone for about ten or so seconds.

When she then went to find out what was wrong, she noticed the young girl “had four puncture wounds on the top of her foot, in the little window of her little jelly shoe, and behind her, to her left was a snake coiled up.”

Terrified, Reed claimed she snatched Cara up right once and hurried to a local ER, contacting ahead to inform the physicians that her daughter required antivenom.

However, the hospital was unable to administer the antidote for more than an hour, and soon after, Cara’s foot began to turn black, according to