Sabrina Peckham.Photo:Go Fund Me
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The daughter of a woman whose body was foundafter being seen in a Florida alligator’s mouthis speaking out following her mom’s death, which has left her “filled with grief and sorrow.”
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Officesaid the body of 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham was pulled from a canal in the area of 134th Avenue North and 121st Street North in Largo on Friday.
“Please do not speak on what you don’t know,” she added. “No matter how you put it, no one deserves to die like this.”
Dorris shared that she was shocked that her mother had died at 41, adding, “We had not expected to do this anytime soon. We expected to have many many more years with her. Unfortunately god has called her home sooner than our hearts were ready.”
Peckham was found in a waterway located near Ridgecrest Park in Pinellas County, according toSpectrum Bay News 9, which has a 5-acre lake and hasbeen known for alligator sightings. Per the station, the location is close to where a man was killed in an alligator-involved accident in May 2022 while searching for Frisbees and other discs in the water.
JaMarcus Bullard, a local resident, told the outlet that he spotted the alligator carrying victim as he was on his way to job interview. “I could tell there was a body in his mouth, so I started recording,” he added.
“I picked up a rock to hit it, it was a lower torso in his mouth,” Bullard said, according toInsider. “It just like swam backward down into the lower canal.”
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The alligator was eventually “humanely killed and removed from the waterway” with the assistance of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Dorris said on aGoFundMe pagethat her family is in “shambles trying to cope with this kind of loss.” As of Monday morning, over $7,000 has been raised for funeral costs.
“I love you more than I ever expressed, I miss you more than you’ll ever know and I pray that you are looking down over me and your grandchildren,” Dorris wrote in a an emotional message on social media. “Please protect us. I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
“I pray you are at peace and you are no longer struggling or hurting,” she continued. “I pray you found momo and pop and you all are watching down from above.”
source: people.com
