A newborn is recovering and his mother faces possible criminal charges after Kountze police say a pet raccoon attacked the infant.

Officers were called to East Fox Street on April 12. There, they found a 2-week-old baby boy with lacerations across his left eye and across the top of his head.



Police say Darby's boyfriend told them that he ran to find one of the raccoons slapping the baby in the face after hearing the baby screaming from outside the home.

The newborn was flown from the house in Kountze to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston where he was released two days later to his mother's custody.





Kountze police say they expect to charge Darby with abandoning or endangering a child, but are still investigating.
