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The United States: An alligator discovered with body of a missing child in its mouth

2-year-old Taylen had been missing for two days after her mother was found dead at the family home on Thursday. – Credit: BRIAN BLANCO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

2-year-old Taylen had been missing for two days after her mother was found dead at the family home on Thursday.

It is a tragic discovery made by the police of Saint Petersburg in Florida at UNITED STATES, Saturday, April 1. 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 Francehad 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”.

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