NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A 9-year-old girl wading in knee-deep water just off New Smyrna Beach was bitten by a shark Friday morning, at least the fourth shark bite reported at that beach in the past month.

The shark bite happened near 27th Avenue just before 11 a.m.

The girl, Maggie Crum, was on vacation from Ohio with her family. She said she felt a bite on her right leg, got out of the water, and told her mother, officials told Spectrum News 13.

She received medical treatment on the beach for a nonlife-threatening laceration, but Maggie's mom took her to a hospital. She got 12 stitches to close the wounds to her leg.

Spectrum News 13 spoke to Maggie after the incident, where she described the ordeal. 

“I saw something not splash, but the sand disrupt and stuff. And then after that happened the shark just came up and bit my leg, because I was swimming away," Maggie explained. 

Even after her encounter with a shark, Maggie isn’t afraid of going back into the water.

“No.  No, because if you get bit once, what are the odds you’re going to get bit again? That would be crazy," she told us. 

Two surfers were bitten by sharks at New Smyrna Beach on August 3. A week earlier, another surfer from out of state was bitten. New Smyrna Beach is considered the shark bite capital of the world, according to Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue.

Beach Safety confirms Maggie is the 10th person this year to get bitten by a shark at New Smyrna Beach. Officials say that’s less than some years in the past but more than the last couple of years.

They believe the sharks are drawn to shallow waters by an abundance of small fish to feed on.