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|quote= |url=http://articleswww.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011-/08-/16/news/29913029_1_circumcision2011-box08-cutter-paper16_mom_who_used_boxcutter_to_circumcise_3monthold_baby_gets_five_years_probation.html
|quote= |url=httphttps://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/04/more_details_emerge_about_port.html
|quote= |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312052038/http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/08/keemonta_peterson.php
|quote= |url=httphttps://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/weirdnational-international/NATLnatl-mom-sentenced-127850008.html/1890264/
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'''Keemonta Peterson''' is a woman, mother of 4, from Oregon who in 2010 tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son with a box-cutter.<ref name="nydaily">{{REFweb
|title=Mom who used box-cutter to circumcise 3-month-old baby gets five years probation
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|date=2011-08-16
|accessdate=2012-11-16
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Peterson wanted to have her son [[circumcised ]] after being inspired by reading the Old Testament, but decided to do it herself in Oct. 2010 because she thought he was too old for doctors to perform the procedure on him, the paper reported.<ref name="nydaily"/>
Keemonta Peterson told police she watched some YouTube videos about circumcisions. Then around midnight on the morning of Oct. 24 - — using a box cutter as a scalpel and a pair of pliers as a tourniquet - — she began the procedure. She had no experience. When she couldn't control the [[bleeding]], she tried to stitch her baby while her 13 year old son watched on distressed. After two hours, Peterson called 911. The infant was rushed to the ER initially in critical condition.
Peterson was arrested under accusations of first- and second-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment. According to the prosecutor’s motion, a doctor described the baby’s condition upon arrival as life -threatening, and the [[pain ]] as immense. The boy appears to have recovered with no apparent permanent injury.
Peterson told authorities that she follows the “Hebrew” religion, but doesn’t attend services at any particular establishment.<ref>{{REFweb
|title=More details emerge about Portland mom who is accused of trying to circumcise her baby at home
|last=Green |first=Aimee |publisher=The Oregonian, Oregon Live
|date=2011-04-08
|accessdate=20122020-1103-1619}}</ref>
She pleaded guilty to criminal mistreatment.<ref>{{REFweb
|title=Keemonta Peterson Encounters Problems With a DIY Home Circumcision
|last=Kotz |first=Pete |publisher=True Crime Report
|date=2011-08-16
|accessdate=20122020-1103-1619
}}</ref> She was was sentenced to five years probation.<ref>{{REFweb
|title=Mom Gets Probation After Botched Circumcision
|last=Dover |first=Sara |publisher=NBC Connecticut
|date=2011-08-16
|accessdate=20122020-1103-1619
}}</ref>
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|Source=NY Daily News
|ref=<ref>[http:name="nydaily"//articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-16/news/29913029_1_circumcision-box-cutter-paper NY Daily News, Mom who used box-cutter to circumcise 3-month-old baby gets five years probation, 2011-08-16]</ref>
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{{SEEALSO}}* [[Circumcision Harm]]
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