Jury selected in case of New Brunswick boys killed by escaped python
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — A jury of eight women and four men was chosen Monday for the trial of a man charged in the deaths of two boys who were suffocated by a python.
Jean-Claude Savoie, who now lives near Montreal, pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death as the case convened at the Campbellton Civic Centre rink.
It took until late afternoon to choose the jury and two alternates. The case now moves to the nearby Campbellton courthouse, where two weeks have been set aside for the trial.
Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother, Connor, died after a 45-kilogram African rock python fell into the room where they slept in Savoie’s Campbellton apartment in August 2013.