Area Boy, 6, Violently Attacked By Raccoon On Way To School

It may be the last thing a parent would expect to happen when walking a child to school.

This raccoon was beaten to death after attacking a 6-year-old boy in Bergen County, N.J.
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01/27/2016 10:30 a.m.

But in Bergen County, N.J., early Wednesday morning, a 6-year-old boy from Elmwood Park was injured after being attacked by a raccoon on the way to school, authorities confirmed.

"His mother was walking the youngster to Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School when a large raccoon came running across the street, jumped on the child's back and began biting and scratching his face," Police Chief Michael Foligno told Daily Voice.

A neighbor, hearing the mother's screams, ran out, grabbed a fiberglas pole and knocked the raccoon off the child, Foligno said.

"He then proceeded to beat it to death," he said.

The boy was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with deep cuts, lacerations and bite marks on his face.

"The worst appears to be under his right eye," Foligno said, adding that the eye wasn't injured.

Bergen County Animal Control took custody of the carcass.

"We should have test results back by Friday," Foligno said.

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