Mom rushes to rescue 5-year-old attacked by raccoon while waiting for school bus | VIDEO - KABC-TV

ASHFORD, Conn. -- A 5-year-old miss was attacked by an assertive raccoon portion waiting for the schoolhouse autobus extracurricular her location successful Ashford, Connecticut, connected December 2.

Logan MacNamara's location surveillance camera captured the scary infinitesimal her daughter, Rylee, was bitten. She told Storyful her girl stepped extracurricular to hold for the autobus and the raccoon was sitting connected the porch.

The video shows the raccoon rapidly latch onto Rylee's leg, who past screams and attempts to shingle the carnal off. MacNamara rushes to assistance her daughter, grabbing onto the carnal by the scruff of its neck. She's capable to region it, and astatine 1 constituent tin beryllium seen holding some the raccoon and her daughter. Once her girl is wrong she throws the carnal into her gait wherever it tin beryllium seen waddling away.

"I heard her screaming and ran to spot what was going on. I thought possibly she slammed her manus successful the door, I was not expecting to spot a raccoon attacking her," MacNamara said. "If I didn't person the video I wouldn't beryllium capable to archer you precisely what happened, it each happened truthful fast."

She told Storyful Rylee has a fewer puncture wounds, and said they some person scratches, but that they are doing ok. She said Rylee, who usually wears leggings, was wearing jeans, and she believes this helped forestall her from being much earnestly injured.

MacNamara confirmed they did spell to the hospital, and said the doctor's main interest was rabies arsenic the raccoon was retired during the day, and precise aggressive, some signs of the viral illness according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Though they've not been capable to find the raccoon to trial it for rabies, she said they volition beryllium receiving rabies vaccines implicit the coming weeks.