One-year-old William Winans is under recovery after an escaped python crawled and attacked him in his crib.

Devin Winans, William’s father checked up on his little boy when he heard him shifting in his crib. The unsuspecting dad went in the dark room, reached into the crib, and touched something “really slimy.”

“I immediately turned the light on and saw the snake, a ball python, wrapped around his foot, constricting it, and trying to eat his foot,” the dad recalled.

He immediately grabbed the snake and took the boy to the hospital where he is now recovering.

The escaped python belonged to their neighbor, 23-year-old Shelby Guyette.