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Infant boys are unable to grant consent for amputation of a functional body part.{{SEEALSO}}* [[Re B and G (children) (No 2) EWFC 3]]* [[Mohammad Siddiqui]]
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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
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|date=2024-08-02
|accessdate=2024-11-09
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==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>
==Legality of nonLegal commentary==* {{REFjournal |last=Adler |first=Peter W. |init=PW |author-therapeutic link=Peter W. Adler |title=Is circumcision legal? |journal=Richmond Journal of minor boysLaw 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 Infant circumcision has no medical indication |author2-link= |etal=so |title=Bodily Integrity, Embodiment and does not treat or prevent disease the Regulation of Parental Choice |journal=Journal of Law and is irreversibleSociety |location= |date=2017 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=501-31 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac. It is considered to be a violation 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 international law Child and Genital Mutilation |journal=Oxford Journal of [[human rights]]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}}
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