Yikes.
A missing Florida toddler was found in the mouth of an alligator a few days ago. Further investigation into this tragedy revealed that the animal did not crawl out of its own mind into the land to nab the boy. Unfortunately, the boy was found to be put there by his father, according to affidavits from the St. Petersburg police affidavits.
The father, 21-year-old Thomas Mosley, is already accused of killing the child’s mother. “Due to the extremely serious allegations surrounding these tragic losses, our investigation is currently focused on gathering information about the facts and circumstances of the case, as well as our client’s mental state,” a spokesperson for Sixth Judicial Circuit Public Defender Sara Mollo said in a statement.
The police also alleged that the man threw or placed his 2-year-old son into the lake, which caused the child’s death. The authorities began the search for the boy when he was not found at the scene of the crime (his mother’s). They then found an alligator miles away where she was found dead, holding an object in its mouth– which was the child.
Image credit: St. Petersburg Police Department