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| − | The fact that circumcision in infants regularly led to deaths is shown by the fact that the Talmud<ref>http://www.come-and-hear.com/yebamoth/yebamoth_64.html</ref> provides for when the first two (or three) sons have died after circumcision, subsequent sons no longer need to be circumcised. | + | The fact that circumcision in infants regularly led to deaths is shown by the fact that the Talmud of Babylon, Yebamoth 64b,<ref>http://www.come-and-hear.com/yebamoth/yebamoth_64.html</ref> provides for when the first two (or three) sons have died after circumcision, subsequent sons no longer need to be circumcised. |
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Revision as of 16:16, 27 December 2018
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.
Contents
2018
- December 23 MGM: Italy: Toddler dies from bleeding after his circumcision, 1 boy, 2 years
- December 23 MGM: South Africa: Deads after circumcision, 21 boys, adolescent
- December 21 FGM: Sierra Leone: Bloody ritual with deadly consequences, 1 girl, 10 years
2006
- August 07 MGM: Dead Franjo: penalty for female doctor reduced to 18 months, 1 boy (Franjo O.), 4 years
2012
- April 27 MGM: In May 2012, the Indian Deccan Chronicle reported that two boys in Bodhan had died of uncontrollable bleeding after circumcision.
- April 17 MGM: Pakistan Today reported the death of 15-day-old infant Ali in April 2012. Ali was to be circumcised in a private clinic, where he died of an injection given him by a doctor.
2011
- September 28 MGM: 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).
2010
- September MGM: An online Bangladeshi newspaper published the headline in September 2010 that a six-year-old had died before circumcision. Sajjad Hossain Mimu was to be circumcised by a village doctor. He was given three injections of the local anesthetic lidocaine before the operation, whereupon the child became ill and lost consciousness. The father took his son to a hospital where the doctors pronounced Sajjad dead. They suspected that he had died of an overdose of the narcotic. The boy's father planned to file a complaint against the doctor who had fled shortly after the boy's death.[1]
2008
- June 19 MGM: In Treviso, Italy, a Nigerian boy died in June 2008 of cardiac arrest after blood loss after a circumcision performed at home. The baby was called Evidence Obosee Prince Aseh and was two months old, reported the Tribuna di Treviso.
- June 13 MGM: In June 2008, six-week-old Eric Keefe died of circumcision at Rosebud's Indian Health Service Hospital in South Dakota.
2007
- November MGM: Ten-year-old Kuldeep Kumar Vishnubhai Patel died in November 2007 about two hours after his circumcision at Anand Hospital in Unjha, India.
- July MGM: In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a baby died of blood loss in July 2007 after the doctor did not properly perform the circumcision. The operation was carried out in the boy's home, the Daily Times reported.[1]
- June MGM: In Kazan, Russia, the four-year-old Rifat died in June 2007 after a ritual circumcision in the hospital.
- February MGM: In February 2007, nine-year-old Celian Noumbiwe bleed to death after circumcision by a physician in Reading, Berkshire.
2006
- 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.[1]
2004
- October MGM: In October 2004, a baby died from a herpes infection ten days after being circumcised by a mohel.
2003
- August 17 MGM: As the Guardian reported in September 2003, Callis Osaghae had died three weeks earlier after a botched circumcision.
- April 23 MGM: In Singapore's Electric New Paper, it was reported in June 2007 that four-year-old Nui Jia Yuan had died in 2003 from a crooked circumcision.
2002
2001
- June 23 MGM: In June 2001, 8-year-old Habibur Rahman died in Bangladesh after being circumcised by a doctor.
1999
- August MGM: In August 1999, a three-year-old boy was circumcised in Stockholm by a doctor. He was dead a few hours after the procedure.
1998
- October 20 MGM: NewsNet4 of Cleveland, Ohio, USA reported in October 1998 on the death of infant Dustin Evans.
1995
- July 28 MGM: In July 1995, the Houston Chronicle (Texas, USA) reported the death of five-year-old Jeremie Johnson.
1993
- June 21 MGM: The Miami Herald reported in June 1993, the six-month-old Demetrius Manker bleeding after a routine circumcision.
Antiquity
The fact that circumcision in infants regularly led to deaths is shown by the fact that the Talmud of Babylon, Yebamoth 64b,[2] provides for when the first two (or three) sons have died after circumcision, subsequent sons no longer need to be circumcised.