PA Baby Will Spend 1st Christmas Recovering From Raccoon Attack

A Pennsylvania baby will spend her first Christmas recovering from a raccoon attack that happened in her family's Philadelphia apartment earlier this week. Four-month-old Jourini Black was asleep in her bed when Wednesday night her mother heard her scream. She had been attacked by a raccoon.

The baby was rushed to the hospital, where she received 65 stitches in her face, the girl's mother, Ashley Rodgers, said on a GoFundMe page created to support the girl's recovery.

On Saturday, Rodgers updated the page to say "Baby Jourini is doing much better and is on her way to making a full recovery." The page has already surpassed its original goal of $2,000. As of Saturday afternoon, nearly $10,000 was raised.

Rodgers had just moved into the apartment on the 2100 block of North 22nd Street the day before the attack, according to Philly.com. Earlier in the day Wednesday, Rodgers saw the raccoon run through the apartment and had notified her landlord, who inspected the residence and assured her it was gone, the report said.

But it was not.

“When I got to my daughter, she was lying on the floor near the door, blood all over her face and all over her clothes," Rodgers told Philly.com. "She was all the way across the room, like he had been trying to drag her somewhere.”

Jourini's recovery could take up to a year, according to the GoFundMe page.

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