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{{PhotoMissing}}'''Jacob Sweet''' ({{LifeData|birth=1986-01-16|birthplace=Anchorage, Alaska{{USSC|AK}}|death=2012-09-16|deathplace=Bellevue, Washington{{USSC|WA}}|deathcountry=USA}}) was a boy who was born at [https://alaska.providence.org/locations/p/pamc Providence Hospital] in Anchorage, Alaska. The following day, on Friday, 17 January 1986, James Nesbitt, {{MD}} of [https://tccpeds.com/Home The Children's Clinic], without [[medical indication]], provided the healthy infant with a non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. The infant was then discharged home.<ref name="hammond2008">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/sweet.htm
|title=Jacob Sweet
|last=Hammond
|first=Tim
|init=T
|author-link=Tim Hammond
|date=2008-02-22
|accessdate=2020-06-19
}}</ref>
==Complication of circumcision==
Then on Saturday, January 25. Jacob was vomiting, fussy, and the circumcision site was red and swollen, so the Sweets returned to the hospital where they were met by Dr. Daniel Tulip, also of the Children's Clinic. Dr. Tulip admitted Jacob to the hospital.<ref name="hammond2008" />
Jacob was severely brain damaged. He was blind and could not walk, talk, or care for himself in any respect.<ref name="hammond2008" />
==Legal proceedings==
The Sweets retained Alan Sherry and filed a suit for malpractice against the physicians and the hospital. The hospital lost the medical records of Jacob Sweet<ref name="milos1995">{{REFnews
}}</ref>
==Death==
Jacob Sweet died in Bellevue, Washington on Sunday, 16 September 2012 at the age of 26.<ref>{{REFweb
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sweet, Jacob}}
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