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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a London-based Jewish rabbi and [[mohel]]. He is a member of the [http://www.initiationsociety.net/ Initiation Society], which trains mohels to perform [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]].<ref name="pope2024">{{REFnews
|title=London rabbi arrested in Ireland over ‘illegal’ circumcision of non-Jewish babies
|website=
|date=2024-08-02
|accessdate=2024-11-09
|format=
|quote=
|quote=
}}</ref>
==Alleged criminal act==
Rabbi Abraham went to Dublin, Ireland where he allegedly performed a [[circumcision]] on a non-Jewish infant boy on or about 1 August 2024.<ref name="pope2024" />
Officers saw "a very young child on the changing pad naked” and another child who had already been circumcised.<ref name="pope2024" />
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This is alleged to be a violation of the [https://wwwrevisedacts.irishstatutebooklawreform.ie/eli/2007/act/25/enactedrevised/en/html Medical Practitioners Act (2007)], which allows Jewish boys to have a less rigorous standard of safety in circumcision surgical [[amputation]] than other boys.<ref name="pope2024" />
Abraham has posted €60,000 bail and is now allowed to return to his home in London while awaiting his trial in Dublin.<ref name="tuite2024" />
==Irish precedent==
In 2015, a father-of-six, Philip Ogbewe, from Nigeria but living in Ireland 20 years and residing at Green Lanes, Drogheda, Co Louth, used a blade on the infant during a crude cultural circumcision. Ogbewe pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of life by performing the circumcision on the baby which led to serious haemorrhaging which created a substantial risk of death or serious harm, at the infant’s home in a midlands town on December 4th, 2015.<ref name="tuite2020">{{REFnews
|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/man-jailed-for-three-years-for-barbaric-circumcision-without-anaesthetic-1.4261959
|title=Man jailed for three years for ‘barbaric’ circumcision without anaesthetic
|first=Tom
|last=Tuite
|publisher=The Irish Times
|date=2020-05-25
|accessdate=2024-11-09
}}</ref>
==Legal commentary==
* {{REFjournal
|last=Adler
|first=Peter W.
|init=PW
|author-link=Peter W. Adler
|title=Is circumcision legal?
|journal=Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest
|date=2013
|volume=16
|issue=3
|pages=439-86
|url=https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jolpi
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2024-11-09
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Geisheker
|init=JV
|author-link=
|url=https://www.newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/nms/article/view/60
|title=The Completely Unregulated Practice of Male Circumcision: Human Rights’ Abuse Enshrined in Law?
|journal=New Male Studies
|date=2013
|volume=2
|issue=1
|pages=18-45
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2023-11-09
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Fox
|first=Marie
|init=M
|author-link=
|last2=Thomson
|first2=Michael
|init2=M
|author2-link=
|etal=so
|title=Bodily Integrity, Embodiment and the Regulation of Parental Choice
|journal=Journal of Law and Society
|location=
|date=2017
|volume=44
|issue=4
|pages=501-31
|url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122232/3/Fox_Thomson_Bod_Int_revised%206March17.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2020-09-08
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Möller
|first=Kai
|init=K
|author-link=
|title=Male and Female Genital Cutting: Between the Best Interest of the Child and Genital Mutilation
|journal=Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
|date=2024-11-09
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=
|url=https://academic.oup.com/ojls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ojls/gqaa001/5862902
|DOI=10.1093/ojls/gqaa001
|accessdate=2024-11-09
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Re B and G (children) (No 2) EWFC 3]]
* [[Mohammad Siddiqui]]
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abraham Jonathan}}
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