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Over $80 Million in Settlements Over Botched Circumcisions in Last 40 Years. Attorneys for the Rights of the Child has published a list of cases over botched circumcisions that have resulted in disclosed settlements. Privately arranged settlements and sealed settlements are both highly unlikely to appear in the list. Accordingly, this list grossly underestimates the number of successful circumcision-related lawsuits and the cost of male circumcision. See [http://www.arclaw.org/resources/settlements List of Legal Victories Proving Harm Caused by Circumcision]
==2021==
A family in Perth, Western Australia, took two healthy brothers to a clinic in Gosnell (a suburb of Perth) for non-therapeutic circumcisions on 7 December 2021. The two-year-old died that evening. The seven-month-old was rushed to [https://www.pch.health.wa.gov.au/ Perth Children's Hospital] for emergency surgery to stop hemorrhage and to prevent him from bleeding out.<ref>{{REFnews
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The exact cause of death has not been revealed. The known facts are suggestive of an overdose of local anaesthetic that may have caused methaemoglobinaemia.
== 2013 ==