LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says searchers have recovered the body of a 2-year-old Nebraska boy snatched by an alligator at Walt Disney World.
The boy was attacked Tuesday night as he waded in shallow water at the edge of the Seven Seas Lagoon at Disney’s Grand Floridian resort.
Demings identified the boy as Lane Graves of Elkhorn, Nebraska.
The search team grew to 50 people Wednesday as trappers and divers searched Disney’s network of man-made canals, ponds and lakes. At least five other alligators were caught and cut open before they found the killer.
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So the boy was recovered from inside the gator?
UPDATE: Another report suggest the boy was found in the water. They have been cutting open the gators to determine which one was the culprit.
It appears that in order to recover the boy, 4 other alligators were killed and cut open, so we can assume that the fifth alligator killed today contained what was left of the boy’s body.
Depending on the size of the alligator and the size of the toddler, he could certainly have been swallowed more or less whole.
Shudder.
(I have a 2 year old grandson.)
Indeed. Unlike humans, alligators don’t kill just for sport.
A report from another source claims the boy was simply drowned and his body found in shallow water near where he had last been seen being carried by the alligator. So maybe there was no eating of the boy’s body involved, just incisive teeth cuts, bleeding and drowning. Not sure I really want to know.
Disneyworld probably needs to be getting out their checkbook ready to write a seveal million dollar check to this family. Who would think a theme amusement park built for children and the young-at-heart would have no control over todler-eating alligators in their lakes?