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This article collects reports of children persons who have died as a result of [[HGM|genital mutilation]]. Of course, the list does not claim to be exhaustive. The names are highlighted because this is about people, not numbers. Every single one of these deaths could have been avoided.

* [[MGM]] - August: '''[[Anonymous case reports#Oliver|Oliver]] ''' from Connecticut dies due to a herpes infection at his circumcision on his third day of life in June 2019.

* [[MGM]] - March 31: [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153948390101937&set=a.453108571936&type=3&theater '''Kevin Lloyd Cagle''', 20, San Francisco, California], [[suicide]]

* [[MGM]] - May 24: '''Anonymous''', two weeks old, died in the Wolfson Medical Center, in Holon, [[Israel]], after slipping into unconsciousness during a circumcision ceremony.<ref>{{REFweb

* [[MGM]] - September: '''[[Anonymous_case_reports#Braydon|Braydon]]''', newborn, some weeks old. Death from [[bleeding]] after circumcision. His mother is American, his father is Canadian and Jewish.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.facebook.com/BloodstainedMenTheirFriends/posts/2339392802867388 |title=Braydon did not survive |website=Facebook |publisher=[[Bloodstained Men]] |date=2021-09-11 |accessdate=2022-06-03}}</ref>* [[MGM]] - May 3: '''Jaamal Coleson, Jr.''', toddler, of Brooklyn, New York. Died at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan, New York City after a circumcision.<ref>Cynthia R. Fagen. Tot's [[shock ]] hosp death: Tragic circumcision. New York Post, Thursday, May 5, 2011.</ref>

* [[MGM]] - April 17: '''Goodluck Caubergs''', Baby. Bled to death after circumcision. Oldham, England.<ref>{{REFnews |title=Grace Adeleye guilty of killing baby in botched circumcision |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-20733674 |last= |first= |coauthors= |publisher=BBC |website= |date=2012-12-14 |accessdate=2021-09-12 |quote=The boy bled to death before he could reach hospital the following day.}}</ref>

* [[MGM]] - December 23: '''Beasley Allen Terrebonne''', age 48, death by [[suicide ]] after botched circumcision and resulting depression. Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA.

* [[MGM]] - June 5: '''Evidence Obosee Prince Aseh''', boy, 2-months, death by circumcision, [[haemorrhage]], Treviso, Italy.<ref>[http://ricerca.gelocal.it/tribunatreviso/archivio/tribunatreviso/2008/06/06/TB1PO_TB101.html 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.]</ref>

* [[MGM]] - February 22: '''Celian Noumbiwe''', boy, nine weeks, death by circumcision, bled to death, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/baby-bled-to-death-after-circumcision-inquest-told-cvrmhlsqh6h In February 2007, nine-year-old '''Celian Noumbiwe''' bleed to death after circumcision by a physician in Reading, Berkshire.]</ref><ref>{{REFnews |title=Baby bled to death after circumcision, inquest told |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/londontimes2009-02-13/ |last=Bannerman |first=Lucy |coauthors= |publisher=The Times |website= |date=2009-02-13 |accessdate=2021-09-12 |quote=}}</ref>* [[MGM]] - February 9: '''Amitai Moshe''', 2 weeks, after a ritual circumcision at Golders Green Synagogue, London.<ref name="beckford2007">{{REFnews |title=Police investigate baby's death after circumcision |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/dailytelegraph2007-02-16/ |last=Beckford |first=Martin |coauthors= |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |website= |date=2007-02-16 |accessdate=2021-09-12 |quote=Police are investigating the circumstances of the death of a baby boy. Inquiries are being carried out by officers from the Serious Crime Directorate. The death is being treated as unexplained.}}</ref>

* [[MGM]] - January 9: '''Wandile Lwane''', 21 (Dontsa Lwane's brother, by [[suicide ]] after learning of Dontasa's death) Ezibeleni, Queenstown, South Africa.* [[MGM]] - January 8: '''Dontsa Lwane''', 19 (by [[suicide ]] after botched circumcision of Dec 11, 2004) Gqebenya, Lady Frere, South Africa.

The fact that circumcision on infants regularly led to deaths is shown by the fact that the Talmud of Babylon, Yebamoth 64b,<ref>[http://www.come-and-hear.com/yebamoth/yebamoth_64.htmlBabylonian Talmud: Tractate Yebamoth]</ref> provides for when the first two (or three) sons have died after circumcision, subsequent sons no longer need to be circumcised. {{SEEALSO}}* [[Anonymous case reports]]* [[Death]]* [[Sudden Infant Death Syndrome]]

* [http://www.cirp.org/library/death/ CirpCircumcision Deaths]* [http://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/ In Memory of the Sexually Mutilated Child]