- A 4-month-old baby girl was attacked by a raccoon in a North Philadelphia apartment, according to her family. The little girl was dragged from her bed by the animal. 
 
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 The pictures of 4-month-old Journi Black are hard to look at. A deep wound what seems to be claw marks around her face and forehead. There's also a gash near her eye. 
 
 "I thought it was a nightmare when I heard over the phone. My heart dropped. I didn't know what to say, what to think," dad, Samuel Black, said. 
 
 He says it was between 10 and 11 p.m. Wednesday night when the child's mom, Ashley Rodgers, took her 6-year-old to the bathroom in her North 22nd Street one-room apartment. 
 
 The mom says she returned to horror. 
 
 "She was laying on the floor— across the room — blood all over her face and her pjs," her mom said. 
 
 She says the raccoon pulled the child from the bed onto the floor. She was rushed to Temple and then to St. Christopher for surgery. The child's face needed 65 stitches, according to the family. 
 
 Back at 2141 North 22nd, neighbors complain of a raccoon infestation. City records say the property is owned by Jihad Simpson. Tax documents show $23,000 in back-taxes are owed, but the city says Simpson is in a payment program and up-to-date. 
 
 According to City Licenses and Inspections, Simpson has no license to rent and told L&I he doesn't, but Ashley Rodgers tells FOX 29 she moved in on Tuesday and paid $375. 
 
 Animal control searched the area for raccoons Thursday. Calls to Simpson have not been returned. ||||| PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A baby had to undergo surgery after being attacked by a raccoon inside a North Philadelphia home earlier this week. 
 
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 Four-month-old Journi Black is on a long road to recovery after a raccoon attacked her inside a home on the 2100 block of North 22nd Street on Wednesday night. 
 
 “It’s just ridiculous,” said Samuel Black, the girl’s father. “My daughter could have lost her life.” 
 
 Animal control officers set a trap for the raccoon to prevent this from happening again. Doctors told the family it will take at least a year for the baby to fully recover. 
 
 “My daughter was laying on the bed sleeping and I went to take my son to the bathroom. We heard a sound upstairs and we see a raccoon run down the steps,” said Ashley Rodgers, the child’s mother. “When I finally got to her, she was laying on the floor so it had dragged her off the bed, across the room, and she was bleeding and crying and her whole face was red.” 
 
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 It’s been mere days since Rodgers moved into the home with her daughter and 6-year-old son, Jordan. Other tenants also reportedly rent rooms there, though no one inside would come to the door or speak on-camera. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the city’s Licenses and Inspections Department tells Eyewitness News the homeowner, who purchased the property in May, does not have a rental license and that if he is renting rooms, he is doing so illegally. 
 
 “It needs to be shut down. Everybody needs to leave out of there,” Rodgers said. 
 
 Rodgers says she contacted her landlord after the first raccoon sighting earlier in the evening, something neighbors say is common, especially with trash in the area. 
 
 “It’s terrible around here with these raccoons, yes it is,” said Barbara Butler. 
 
 Rodgers says her landlord told her he had chased the raccoon out. But after the raccoon attacked the baby, the landlord rushed her to the hospital. The family says it intends to pursue legal action. 
 
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 “It is his responsibility. There’s no reason an animal should have gotten into the house with minors,” Black said. 
 
 Eyewitness News reached out to that landlord; he first hung up on us then called back to say everything has been resolved and to contact his lawyer. However, he would not provide his attorney’s name or number. Meantime, the baby is still in recovery at St. Christopher’s Hospital and has had her rabies shots.
– Samuel Black tells WTXF he "thought it was a nightmare" when he heard what happened to his 4-month-old daughter earlier this week in Philadelphia. Family says little Journi was in bed at their first-floor apartment Wednesday night when she was attacked by a raccoon, leaving her hospitalized and facing a year of recovery, CBS Philly reports. Journi's mother, Ashley Rodgers, says she heard noises when she was in the bathroom, went to check on Journi in bed, and saw a raccoon running away. "I hear her screaming and crying," Rodgers tells WPVI. "By the time I got to her, she was off the bed across the room on the floor with blood all over her face." Journi's uncle was in disbelief: "A raccoon dragging an innocent baby off a bed onto the floor. What was he going to do? Eat her? Kill her?" Images of Journi's injuries show claw marks to her face and forehead, a wound near her eye, and more. Rodgers says she needed 64 stitches and a rabies shot. It's unclear how the raccoon got into the apartment, but neighbors complain of a raccoon infestation in the area due to trash. The family is considering legal action against their landlord, who the city says may be renting out rooms illegally. “It is his responsibility," Black tells CBS. "There’s no reason an animal should have gotten into the house with minors." He adds: “It’s just ridiculous. My daughter could have lost her life.” The family had only been in the apartment for a week when the attack happened. Animal control officers set a trap for the raccoon in case it comes back.