Fatalities

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

21st century

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
• May 26 MGM: Baby died from bleeding the next day, 1 boy, 29 days

2017

• September 18 MGM: Turin: Little Henry was just 50 days old, 1 boy, 50 days

2015

• March 31 MGM: Kevin Lloyd Cagle, San Francisco, California, suicide

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

• September 16 MGM: Jacob Cole Sweet dies as a result of circumcision infection by RIC and subsequent brain damage following incorrect medication
• May 8 MGM: Infant boy, age two-weeks. Circumcised Sunday, 6 May 2012 in a doctor's office on the east side of Oslo, Norway. Died of complications.
• 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.
• April MGM: Two boys, Arif, age 4 and Azhar, age 3,in Rakasipet, Bodhan, Andhra Pradesh India. The boys died after a circumcision a few days before by a rural medical practitioner at Masjid Colony in the Rakasipet area due to uncontrolled "overbleeding".
• February 17 MGM: Angelo Ofori-Minhah, age 28-days, of Queen's Park, Northamptonshire, England, died after being circumcised by Rabbi Mordehai Cohen on February 15, 2012. The cause of death was bleeding, exsanguination, and heart failure, according to the medical report. The infant was reported to have lost three-quarters of his total blood volume.

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.
• May 3 MGM: Jaamal Coleson, Jr., toddler, of Brooklyn, New York. Died at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan, New York City after a circumcision.

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.

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.
• 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

• 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.

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

• August MGM: Ryleigh novel Bryan McWillis died in August 2002 at the age of one month and one day.

2001

• June 23 MGM: In June 2001, 8-year-old Habibur Rahman died in Bangladesh after being circumcised by a doctor.

20th century

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.

1998

• October MGM: Dustin Evans: Cleveland, OH, USA.

1995

• July 18 MGM: Jeremie Johnson: Died July 18, 1995, Houston, TX, USA.

1993

• June 23 MGM: Demetrius Manker: Carol City, Dade County, Florida, USA.

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, 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.

• Beschneidungsforum.de, German
• Cirp.org
• Online memorial for all victims of child circumcision, Facebook page, German
• Pro-Kinderrechte.de, German
• Wise Woman Way of Birth