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|date=2012-07-14
|accessdate=2019-10-29
}}</ref>Although the offense of assault was found, the doctor was acquitted due to lack of case law on the subject of the present [[circumcision]], because he had acted in an unavoidable mistake and therefore without guilt (§ 17 sentence 1 Criminal Code).
Since subsequent cases of [[circumcision]] would be no longer protected by 'unavoidable mistake' on the basis of this judgment, the judgment attracted more attention and initiated a change of direction in the legal opinion on the subject [[MGM|Circumcision of Boys]] in Germany.