SYDNEY (AFP) - A seven-year-old Australian boy broke into an animal centre and fed a three-metre (11-foot) crocodile a range of native reptiles, police said Friday.

Northern Territory police said surveillance camera footage showed the child scaling a fence to break into the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in central Australia on Wednesday and killing a number of animals.

The boy, who cannot be held legally responsible because he is under 10 years old, then tossed some of the animals into the enclosure of the 200 kilogram (440 pound) salt water crocodile which is seen eating them.

"There were lizards, goannas (monitor lizards) and a turtle," a spokeswoman for the Northern Territory police said.

The crime was discovered when staff arrived at the centre the following morning to find more than a dozen animals either dead or missing.

Police were able to identify the boy from the footage and have cautioned him and spoken to his mother about the incident, the spokeswoman said.

- Now what I do not understand is how the boy cannot be held legally responsible for this. Okay, he is under ten years old, but give me a break, he knew exactly what he was doing.

what in the world? where did the little boy get the reptiles?
talk about dangerous encounters...

he probably watched one too many Crocodile Hunter shows

This really looks scary.The boy must had some courage to do a stuff like that. I am sure he will be an animal correspondent in the future.