Jean-Claude Savoie, the owner of the African Rock Python that killed two young boys as they slept in August 2013, has been found not guilty of criminal negligence causing death: Canadian Press, CBC News. The verdict comes after an eight-day trial that focused on a ventilation pipe the python escaped through, and whether Savoie was negligent in not securing it, or honestly believed the snake couldn’t squeeze through it.
Savoie Acquitted in New Brunswick Python Case
Jonathan Crowe
Jonathan Crowe blogs about maps at The Map Room and writes and reviews science fiction and fantasy; his work has been published by AE, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and Tor.com. He lives in Shawville, Quebec.
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