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'''DJW''' is a man from British Columbia, [[Canada]] who in 2007 attempted to circumcise his four-year-old son on the kitchen floor of his home in April 2007. He used a carpet blade that he purchased at Home Depot earlier that day and sterilized. He didn’t give his son any anesthetic, just four ounces of homemade honey wine. The [[circumcision]] wasn’t successful and there was significant [[bleeding]], which the father stopped with the help of a veterinary blood-stopping agent and paper towels.
The result,” according to court documents submitted by the Crown, was “the [[foreskin ]] on D.J.’s [[penis ]] stuck out like two arms. D.J. was not [[circumcised]]. He was disfigured.”
== 2005 ==
According to the Crown, the father lacked the medical skills to perform a [[circumcision]]. He tried to circumcise himself in 2005 using a Zhenxi ring, or circumcision ring. It wasn't successful and the father had to be rushed to a hospital.<ref>{{REFweb
The trial judge found the kitchen was not a sanitary place for a surgical procedure, that the blade used wasn't as sharp as a surgical instrument and it was inappropriate to use a veterinary product to try and staunch the [[bleeding]] from the boy's partly severed [[foreskin]].
DJW's religious background was as a Jehovah's Witness, although he was "disfellowshipped" by his family and the church. The Crown said his religious education and associations later led him to believe that male [[circumcision ]] was a covenant with God.
He attempted to circumcise himself in 2005 and could not stop the [[bleeding]]. He had to go to an emergency room where a doctor sutured the wound.
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* [[Canada]]
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* [http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/spare-the-rod/ Spare the Rod]
* [https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcca/doc/2011/2011bcca522/2011bcca522.html?autocompleteStr=R.%20v.%20DJW&autocompletePos=1 R. v. D.J.W., 2011 BCCA 522 (CanLII)]
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