16,704
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
→Circumcision deaths: Add bullets.
Gairdner (1949) reported 16 deaths per year.<ref name="gairdner1949" /> Death from circumcision still occurs.
* Amitai Moshe, seven-days-old, stopped breathing and died after having been circumcised by a ''[[mohel]]'', who was a member of the [http://www.initiationsociety.net/ Initiation Society], at [https://www.goldersgreenshul.org.uk/ Golders Green Synagogue] in North London. It was thought that the infant had cardiac arrest, perhaps brought on by the [[Pain| painful circumcision]].<ref name="beckford2007">{{REFnews
|title=Police investigate baby's death after circumcision
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/dailytelegraph2007-02-16/
}}</ref>
* Celian Noumbiwe, a nine-week-old baby, died in his mother's arms in 2007, after circumcision surgery at a doctor's surgery in Reading, apparently from loss of blood.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Baby bled to death after circumcision, inquest told
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/londontimes2009-02-13/
}}</ref>
* Goodluck Caubergs, four-weeks-old, bled to death in Oldham after Grace Adeleye circumcised him in April 2010. Adeleye was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence at Manchester Crown Court.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Grace Adeleye guilty of killing baby in botched circumcision
|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-20733674