[RedMonqey]

I doubt that a pet store would even have a Python large enough to attack a boy.

Think a snake between 14 and 16 feet long is big enough?(in the article, 4.5 yards)

A quick search of the internet will provide you with plenty of examples of attacks of pythons on small children.

This was not just a (Burmese) python but an African Rock Python, it's more aggressive African cousin.

When I was a boy I used to handle pet store Pythons and Boas, even let them curl around my neck.

You weren't asleep, either....

[HerrBlucher]

examples of attacks of pythons on small children.

Sure, with the intention of eating them. If those kids have snake bites from the python then the story makes more sense. The autopsy will tell the story. It is extremely unlikely that snake killed those two boys.