Jury Finds Petco Not Liable in Death of Boy, 10, Who Contracted Illness from Pet Rat
for the death of a 10-year-old boy who died after contracting an illness from a rat bought at one of the pet store chain's California locations, a jury decided Thursday. The jury determined that Petco did enough to warn consumers about the dangers of owning a pet rat and was neither negligent nor liable in Aidan Pankey’s 2013 death, which the San Diego County medical examiner’s office ruled was caused by what’s Little Aidan was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains and died within two days in June 2013 after being given a pet rat ...
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