Southern California Art Teacher Dies After Being Bitten by Bat in Classroom [Video]

A California art teacher has died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat inside her school classroom.

Leah Seneng, a 60-year-old teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, Merced County, had spotted the wild bat in her classroom sometime in mid-October, her close friend Laura Splotch told ABC30.

Seneng Tried to Scoop the Bat to Release it Outside the Classroom When She Got Bit

When she tried to pick it up and take it outside, the bat bit her, Splotch said. “I don’t know if she thought it was dead or what caused it to lie around her classroom and she was trying to scoop it up and take it outside,” she said.

“She didn’t wanna harm it. But that’s when, I guess it woke up or saw the light or whatever it swooped around a bit and it took off.”

In the days that followed, Seneng reportedly …