In the United States, an alligator discovered with the remains of a missing child in its mouth.

Cis a tragic discovery made by the police of Saint Petersburg in Florida in the United States, Saturday 1^is april. Despite the use of drones and divers in the city’s water bodies, 2-year-old Taylen was found dead, as reported Midi-Free. For two days, an Amber alert, equivalent to the kidnapping alert in France, had been triggered.

This Saturday, a Saint Petersburg police patrol passed near a pond. They saw an alligator “holding an object between its jaws,” said one of the police officers. Investigators opened fire on the animal, which immediately dropped what it was holding in its mouth. The patrol then realized that it was the body of little Taylen. According to one of the officers, the body of the child could be recovered “intact”, while the alligator was euthanized.

Child’s father arrested

Two days before this sad discovery, the child’s mother, Pashun Jeffery, only 20 years old, had been found dead at her home, stabbed multiple times. Local police chief Anthony Holloway described the crime scene as “extremely violent”.

A few hours later, the child’s father, Thomas Mosley, was arrested and hospitalized. He had gone to his mother’s home with gashes on his arms. The local police said that the circumstances of the death of the child remain to be established, but that the man will be prosecuted for the two murders.

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