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Your transaction was with the parent.
A legal adult who made a decision to purchase an animal within the boundaries of the law.
While you have a moral obligation to educate the buyer long before the purchase was made, if they insist that the education and experience needed is already in place and then proceed to act like morons, I don't personally see how amny blame can be attached to you.
Had you misrepresented the animal as being nonvenomous, then there's a potential lawsuit. Had the parent not been involved with the purchase, there's a potential lawsuit. But given the situation you described above you really have no responsibility here. After they take posession of the animal you have no control over how they approach it's care or handling and can't protect them from their own idiocy.
A court may or may not agree with me... but those are my thoughts, such as they are.
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