On a recent Friday night, 7-year-old Daniella Cabrera was playing hide-and-seek at a slumber party in Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach. She and a friend hid in the dark behind a cabin that backed up to a pond.
As she crouched down she felt a sharp strike on her wrist, looked behind her and saw a snake with a banded pattern on its back. The kids fled to the campsite in search of Daniella’s dad.
Daniella was crying when she reached her father, Michael Cabrera.
The kids tried to identify the snake from the glimpse they caught and thought, based on pictures online, that it was a corn snake, a non-venomous snake with a banded pattern similar to that of a water moccasin.
