--- description: A four-month old girl required 65 stitches to her face after she was dragged from her bed by a raccoon on Wednesday night. title: A 4-Month-Old Girl Was Dragged From Her Bed and Attacked by a Raccoon image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt905647e81442ba18/6988f654bc6cfcbfdd3e47c0/baby-girl-raccoon-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [animals](/tag/animals/) ## animals Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A 4-Month-Old Girl Was Dragged From Her Bed and Attacked by a Raccoon  by [Billy Perrigo](/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Dec 22, 2017 12:35 PM CUT  PRIMORYE TERRITORY, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 7, 2017: A raccoon at the Primorye Safari Park in the village of Shkotovo. Yuri Smityuk/TASS (Photo by Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images) PRIMORYE TERRITORY, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 7, 2017: A raccoon at the Primorye Safari Park in the village of Shkotovo. Yuri Smityuk/TASS (Photo by Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)Yuri Smityuk—Yuri Smityuk/TASS  by [Billy Perrigo](/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Dec 22, 2017 12:35 PM CUT A four-month old girl required 65 stitches to her face, according to her family, after she was dragged from her bed by a raccoon on Wednesday night in a North [Philadelphia](http://time.com/tag/philadelphia/ "undefined") apartment. Photos of the baby, named Jourini Black, show what appear to be claw marks all over the right side of her face, including on her right eyelid. “I thought it was a nightmare when I heard over the phone,” the girl’s father Samuel Black said, [according to Fox 29 Philadelphia](http://www.fox29.com/news/family-4-month-old-baby-girl-attacked-by-raccoon-inside-north-philly-apartment "undefined"). “My heart dropped. I didn’t know what to say, what to think.” The attack reportedly happened whilst the girl’s mother, Ashley Rodgers, was out of the room taking her other daughter to the bathroom. When she returned, she saw the aftermath of the attack. “She was laying on the floor— across the room — blood all over her face and her pjs,” Rodgers [told Fox 29](http://www.fox29.com/news/family-4-month-old-baby-girl-attacked-by-raccoon-inside-north-philly-apartment "undefined"). Rodgers said she had moved in just the day previously, and paid the landlord $375\. Neighbors on North 22nd Street have reportedly complained about a raccoon infestation in the area, and Fox 29 [reported](http://www.fox29.com/news/family-4-month-old-baby-girl-attacked-by-raccoon-inside-north-philly-apartment "undefined") the landlord had no licence to rent the property. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5077215/raccoon-attack-baby-philadelphia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5077215/raccoon-attack-baby-philadelphia/"},"headline":"A 4-Month-Old Girl Was Dragged From Her Bed and Attacked by a Raccoon","datePublished":"2017-12-22T12:35:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:39:59.328Z","description":"She needed 65 stitches to her face after the ordeal","url":"https://time.com/5077215/raccoon-attack-baby-philadelphia/","keywords":["animals","Attack","Philadelphia","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt905647e81442ba18/6988f654bc6cfcbfdd3e47c0/baby-girl-raccoon-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Billy Perrigo","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt905647e81442ba18/6988f654bc6cfcbfdd3e47c0/baby-girl-raccoon-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Baby Girl Raccoon Attack","caption":"Baby Girl Raccoon Attack","creditText":"Yuri Smityuk—Yuri Smityuk/TASS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5077215/raccoon-attack-baby-philadelphia/","name":"A 4-Month-Old Girl Was Dragged From Her Bed and Attacked by a Raccoon"}}]}] ```