{"id":2670,"date":"2016-11-10T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2016-11-10T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:25:26","slug":"canada-pet-shop-owner-not-guilty-over-python-child-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/10\/canada-pet-shop-owner-not-guilty-over-python-child-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada pet shop owner not guilty over python child deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jury in Canada has acquitted a New Brunswick pet shop owner whose python asphyxiated two young boys in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.3m (14ft) snake slithered through a ventilation duct to reach the brothers, who were staying overnight in the flat above the shop.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Jean-Claude Savoie had shown reckless disregard for the safety of Noah Barthe, four, and Connor, six.<\/p>\n<p>But jurors accepted that Mr Savoie could not have foreseen the snake would fit through the 10cm-wide pipe. Mr Savoie therefore saw no need to secure the opening, his lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p>A pathologist who performed autopsies on the boys said they died of asphyxiation and each was covered in puncture wounds from snake bites.<\/p>\n<p>The African rock python was put down after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A jury in Canada has acquitted a New Brunswick pet shop owner whose python asphyxiated two young boys in 2013. The 4.3m (14ft) snake slithered through a ventilation duct to reach the brothers, who were <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/10\/canada-pet-shop-owner-not-guilty-over-python-child-deaths\/\" title=\"Canada pet shop owner not guilty over python child deaths\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[45,1413],"class_list":{"0":"post-2670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-python","11":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}