Fatalities

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This article collects reports of children who have died as a result of genital mutilation. Of course, the list does not claim to be exhaustive.

21st century

2018

2017

2015

2013

  • August MGM: Gugeluthu Molakapa, age 4, brain dead after a circumcision at Germiston Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • March 8 MGM: Braden Tyler Frazier. Born February 25, 2013 at Lodi, California. Died at Sacramento. Circumcised on the ninth day of life at Sacramento, California. Died on the eleventh day of life of hemorrhage and convulsions, secondary to circumcision.

2012

2011

  • November 26 MGM: James Connor, infant, seven pounds eight ounces, 21 inches long. Born at Pittsburgh, Friday, November 25, 2011. Death by bleeding after circumcision.
  • September 28 MGM: Anonymous Jewish infant, two weeks old. Death from Herpes infection, Maimonides Hospital, Brookyn, New York.[1]
  • May 3 MGM: Jaamal Coleson, Jr., toddler, of Brooklyn, New York. Died at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan, New York City after a circumcision.[2]

2010

  • October 6 MGM: Joshua Haskins, 7-weeks old. Died 19 hours after having circumcision followed by prolonged bleeding, despite having congenital heart defect and being in intensive care. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
  • September 25 MGM: Saijad Hossain Mimu, 6-years-old. Death by lidocaine anaesthetic overdose, Safapur, Amirbad Union, Sonagazi Upazila, Feni District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.[3]
  • April 17 MGM: Goodluck Caubergs, Baby. Bled to death after circumcision. Oldham, England.

2008

2007

2006

  • August 07 MGM: Dead Franjo: penalty for female doctor reduced to 18 months, 1 boy (Franjo O.), 4 years
  • MGM: The son of Ramil Sadekov, the imam of the historic mosque in Moscow, Salikh Sadekow was only a month old. The imam had contacted the circumciser due to an advertising campaign, and the operation was carried out in the imam's apartment. At first, it seemed that the circumcision had been successful and uncomplicated, but Salikh's condition soon began to deteriorate rapidly. At 5am, parents noticed that their baby was breathing slower than usual. His fingers became cold and green. He died of blood loss before the ambulance arrived.[3]

2004

2003

2002

2001

20th century

1999

1998

1995

1993

  • June 23 MGM: Demetrius Manker: Carol City, Dade County, Florida, USA.[5][6]

1992

  • July 8 MGM: Allen A. Ervin: Spartanburg, SC

1991

  • July MGM: Raju Miah: Death by circumcision. Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

1990

  • MGM Boma Oruitemeka: Death by circumcision, severe hemorrhage. London, England, UK.

1986

  • November MGM: Steven Christopher Chacon: San Francisco, CA, USA.

1982

  • November MGM: Christopher Dolezal: Des Moines, IA, USA.

1974

  • June 9 MGM: Chino Burrell: 7-months-old, death by circumcision, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1957

  • MGM: Bruce Wechsler: infant boy, Staph infection following circumcision. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1942

  • December MGM: "J.B.": Evanston, Illinois, USA.
  • April MGM: Baby boy Lebeau, death by circumcision, Quebec, Canada.

1932

  • MGM: Roland Albert McCarty: infant boy. Death by infection of circumcision wound. Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

1927

  • August 21 MGM: Michael Julian Baldwin: infant boy, 4-days-old, hemorrhage after circumcision. Monroe County, Indiana, USA.

1910

  • June 10 MGM: Aleck, Baby Boy: Island County, Washington, USA.

19th century

1858

  • April 18 MGM: Myer Jacob Levy: 8-days-old, bled to death after circumcision, New York, NY, USA.

1856

  • December 14 MGM: Julius Katzenstein: 8-days-old, bled to death after circumcision, New York, NY, USA.

Antiquity

The fact that circumcision on infants regularly led to deaths is shown by the fact that the Talmud of Babylon, Yebamoth 64b,[7] provides for when the first two (or three) sons have died after circumcision, subsequent sons no longer need to be circumcised.


Other web pages with lists

The following websites maintain lists with fatalities due to circumcision on minors, too. Some cases are listed above, but are commented in detail or with more information on the following web pages.

References

  1. In September 2011, a two-week-old boy died at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn of a herpes infection caused by ritual circumcision with oral aspiration of the blood (Metzitzah b'peh).
  2. Cynthia R. Fagen. Tot's shock hosp death: Tragic circumcision. New York Post, Thursday, May 5, 2011.
  3. a b c http://pro-kinderrechte.de/tod-nach-beschneidung-eine-ubersicht/
  4. Lyndia Lum, Ruth Sorelle. Boy's death to be probed. Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas, Friday, July 28, 1995, page 28A.
  5. Baby bleeds to death after circumcision. Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, June 26, 1993.
  6. The Miami Herald reported in June 1993, the six-month-old Demetrius Manker bleeding after a routine circumcision.
  7. http://www.come-and-hear.com/yebamoth/yebamoth_64.html