Python SNAKE Strangles Two Little Boys While They Sleep
Mandy Trecartin is described by friends as a loving and devoted mother to Noah, left, and Connor Barthe. The two young boys, aged four and six, were found dead Monday morning.
Photograph by: Canadian Press Files , The Canadian Press
The
deaths of two young boys, who police believe were killed by an African
rock python while they slept at a friend's apartment, have shaken the
northern New Brunswick city of Campbellton, where the children were
remembered Tuesday as fun-loving free spirits.
Noah and Connor Barthe, aged four and six, were found dead Monday morning after the 45-kilogram snake escaped its enclosure in the apartment, slithered through a ventilation system above and fell through a ceiling into the living room where they were sleeping, according to police.
Dave Rose, the great uncle of the boys, said Noah was looking forward to starting kindergarten this fall, joining his older brother at elementary school, before "this awful tragedy."
"We appreciate the outpouring of sympathy that's been shown," Rose told a news conference in Campbellton.
Rose said the boys were spending the day with family friend Jean-Claude Savoie, who took them shopping and to a farm before they returned to his apartment for a sleepover.
"They were two typical children They enjoyed life to a maximum," Rose said.
Other relatives and friends of the boys and their family said they could not fathom what happened.
"It's like a bad dream," said Shawna MacEachern, who has been a friend of the boys' mother, Mandy Trecartin, since childhood.
"She loved her babies. They meant everything to her.."
Trecartin's Facebook page shows a mother devoted to and proud of her boys.
"We're all overwhelmed here," said Stephanie Bernatchez, whose children sometimes played with the boys. "They could have been hit by a car, but a snake? That's not something people around here expect." The RCMP said the boys were found dead Monday in an apartment located above Reptile Ocean, an exotic pet store. The Mounties initially said the 4.3-metre-long snake escaped from the store at some point during the night, but on
Tuesday Sgt. Alain Tremblay said it escaped its floor-to-ceiling glass tank inside the apartment through a vent, allowing it to escape through a ventilation pipe.
The snake's weight caused the pipe to collapse and fall into the living room where the boys slept on a mattress, Tremblay said.
Police said Monday they believe the snake strangled the boys.
Noah and Connor Barthe, aged four and six, were found dead Monday morning after the 45-kilogram snake escaped its enclosure in the apartment, slithered through a ventilation system above and fell through a ceiling into the living room where they were sleeping, according to police.
Dave Rose, the great uncle of the boys, said Noah was looking forward to starting kindergarten this fall, joining his older brother at elementary school, before "this awful tragedy."
"We appreciate the outpouring of sympathy that's been shown," Rose told a news conference in Campbellton.
Rose said the boys were spending the day with family friend Jean-Claude Savoie, who took them shopping and to a farm before they returned to his apartment for a sleepover.
"They were two typical children They enjoyed life to a maximum," Rose said.
Other relatives and friends of the boys and their family said they could not fathom what happened.
"It's like a bad dream," said Shawna MacEachern, who has been a friend of the boys' mother, Mandy Trecartin, since childhood.
"She loved her babies. They meant everything to her.."
Trecartin's Facebook page shows a mother devoted to and proud of her boys.
"We're all overwhelmed here," said Stephanie Bernatchez, whose children sometimes played with the boys. "They could have been hit by a car, but a snake? That's not something people around here expect." The RCMP said the boys were found dead Monday in an apartment located above Reptile Ocean, an exotic pet store. The Mounties initially said the 4.3-metre-long snake escaped from the store at some point during the night, but on
Tuesday Sgt. Alain Tremblay said it escaped its floor-to-ceiling glass tank inside the apartment through a vent, allowing it to escape through a ventilation pipe.
The snake's weight caused the pipe to collapse and fall into the living room where the boys slept on a mattress, Tremblay said.
Police said Monday they believe the snake strangled the boys.
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Python:
Pythons are a group of boa constrictors which some considered a
separate family (Pythonidae), of any one of four subfamilies
(Pythoninae) in the family Boidae.
They include seven genera with about 30 species, which is widespread in Asia, Africa and Australia.
It is registered pythons that are up to nine feet long.
Python lay eggs which the mother covers his body until they hatch. The Indian python vibrating muscles to warm the eggs.
They include seven genera with about 30 species, which is widespread in Asia, Africa and Australia.
It is registered pythons that are up to nine feet long.
Python lay eggs which the mother covers his body until they hatch. The Indian python vibrating muscles to warm the eggs.
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