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'''Jennifer Garza''' is a physician at the Valley Pediatrics in McAllen, {{USSC|TX}}. In 2011 she performed a [[circumcision ]] on a 4 -year -old child, leading to such severe [[complications ]] that the child pleaded to "just cut it off and (he) can be a girl". <ref>{{REFweb
|quote=A doctor botched a circumcision of a 4-year-old boy so badly that the boy pleaded to "just cut it off and (he) can be a girl," the parents claim in court.
|url=http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/09/52144.htm
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On August 27th of 2012 the [[American Academy of Pediatricians Pediatrics]] (AAP) presented a new Policy Statement on Circumcision and Technical Report stating that "the benefits outweigh the risks", yet when it comes a complications like this one, the technical report states that "Financial costs of care, emotional tolls, or the need for future corrective surgery (with the attendant anesthetic risks, family stress, and expense) are unknown".<ref>{{REFjournal
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The referring doctor and a third doctor examined the child and were unable to explain the cause of the second stream. In the following days the child continued to be in pain while urinating, refusing to drink anything, blaming the parents for his pain and asking to just have his penis cut off so he can be a girl. The parents had to change the sheets every night due to blood stains.
A week after the procedure, the parents took the child to the emergency room at [https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/rio-grande-regional-hospital Rio Grande Regional Hospital ] where Dr. Christopher Bristow told them "that the plaintiff's penis looked over cauterized." A urologist saw the child and he was prescribed morphine to sleep.
Later after urinating he had a stream of blood running on his leg. He was taken to another emergency room.
Five days later, a pediatric urologist told them that the child's [[urethra]] is damaged. The circumcision surgery created [[Urethrocutaneous fistula| fistulas - holes in the child's penis]]. He told them that the child will need reconstructive surgery to repair the fistulas.
On or about September 23, 2011, the child underwent reconstructive surgery to close the fistulas (holes) on his penis. The doctor told the family that he closed the holes; however he may need more surgeries in the future.