Criminal investigation launched in Canada python deaths (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Police in the Canadian province of New Brunswick have launched a criminal probe into the apparent killing of two young boys by an escaped snake.

Investigators hope to establish if the African rock python's owner, who runs a pet store, had followed all the rules.

Connor and Noah Barthe, aged six and four, were sleeping over in the flat above the Campbellton shop on Sunday night with their friend.

The 4.3m (14ft) python, suspected of strangling the boys, has been put down.
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Jean-Claude Savoie, Reptile Ocean's owner, said the snake somehow escaped from the enclosure, before entering a ventilation duct and falling into the living room where the boys were sleeping.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23594169




One more reason not to keep exotic "pets" (really living trophies), even if you don't care about them possibly taking over Florida.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. That's insane

Those poor little kids.

[Isoldeblue]

2. Both the pet shop owners

and the parents, should be charged with murder. It wasn't the first time the snakes got out and went in their apartment. So this horrendous tragedy could have been avoided.

What I don't get, is that the boys must have been screaming when the snakes first started coiling around them. How could the parents not hear them in a small apartment like it was? Where were they?

What a godawful, horrifying way for those sweet children to die. It makes me a bit nuts, just thinking about it.