Report: Disney Failed To Clear Beach Despite Gator Sightings

(RTTNews) - Tourists at Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa had reported sightings of alligators to employees just minutes before an alligator attacked and killed a 2-year-old boy, according to an official investigative report.

Jason Ochs and Alfred Smith, both tourists at Grand Floridian Resort, sighted an alligator just before the attack and had pointed it out to a Walt Disney World employee.

The report by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission claims that the alligator considered the child as a food source. The alligator killed the victim with a crushing bite and drowning. The report suggests that the alligator did not have any fear of people due to living in a high human use area.

Lane Graves, the 2-year old boy, was dragged away by an alligator when he bent down to fill a bucket of water to make sand castles along the Seven Seas Lagoon shoreline.