Florida Mom Faces Prison Sentence For Refusing Son’s Circumcision.....
Reuters / Pierre Marsaut
A mother who has taken flight with her son to prevent his circumcision could face a prison sentence if she fails have the boy undergo the procedure, a judge ruled, in a case that has become a rallying cry for ‘intactivists.’
The case, which began as a domestic dispute between Heather Hironimus and her husband, Dennis Nebus, over whether or not to circumcise their four-year-old son, has caught the attention of circumcision opponents, who call themselves ‘intactivists,’ as the courts have intervened in the matter.
Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen on Friday said Hironimus was in contempt for violating an order to appear in court Friday with her son. Gillen called it “reprehensible” that she has not allowed the father to see his son since February 20, AP reported.
The judge, meanwhile, is determined to ensure that the child undergoes the medical process to have his foreskin removed.
“I will allow her to avoid incarceration or get out of jail if she signs the consent to the procedure,” Gillen told Hironimus’ attorney Thomas Hunker, who said he did not know the whereabouts of his client or her son.
In an interesting twist in the story, attorneys for the Sun Sentinel, a Florida newspaper covering the story, filed an emergency motion seeking to declare the order as unconstitutional. As the newspaper reported on its legal efforts, the court “denied the motion, ruling it did not fit the definition of an emergency because it didn’t involve ‘matters of life and death or instances of irreparable harm.’”
Initially agreeing to a parental planning agreement with her husband to have their son circumcised, the mother later changed her mind on the issue, thus beginning a bitter court case nearly as old as the child.The father said he considered circumcision when his son was 3, after noticing the child was urinating on his leg. A pediatrician had diagnosed the son as having phimosis, a condition that prevents retraction of the foreskin. However, in court testimony Friday, Nebus said the mother “frightened the boy” over the procedure.
“My son has mentioned things to me that he’s scared to have his penis cut off,” he said.
In May, Judge Gillen, who has requested the media not reveal the identity of the child involved in the case, ordered the mother to comply with the circumcision, while also warning her not to tell her son she was against the procedure.
The judge blamed the mother for having the child’s story “plastered all over the internet” in a “direct, contemptuous violation of this court’s orders.”
“This child has been placed in a light that provides much too much scrutiny for a little boy,” Gillen said. “I blame no one but the mother for that.”
Meanwhile, the court battle has attracted the attention of groups opposed to circumcision. The ‘intactivists’ held protests outside several Palm Beach County medical facilities on Friday, as well as in front of the county courthouse in Delray Beach.
David Wilson, the founder of a group called Stop Infant Circumcision Society, called it “utter insanity for our courts to order the sexual mutilation of this child,” the Sun Sentinel reported.
Although still common practice in the United States, circumcision rates have begun to decline as some medical studies indicate the procedure may carry some risks.
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, for example, published a study in January suggesting that “circumcised boys are more likely than intact boys to develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) before the age of 10.” The research was conducted in Denmark among a group of children born between 1994 and 2003. Over 340,000 boys were followed up to the age of nine between 1994 and 2013 and almost 5,000 cases of ASD were discovered.
Professor Morten Frisch of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, who headed the research, said: “Our investigation was prompted by the combination of recent animal findings linking a single painful injury to lifelong deficits in stress response and a study showing a strong, positive correlation between a country’s neonatal male circumcision rate and its prevalence of ASD in boys.”Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control points to other medical studies that show the procedure can lower a male’s risk of sexually transmitted diseases, penile cancer and urinary tract infections.
3 comments:
The boy was born with a foreskin for a very good reason. Religious and other pedophiles know that any thinking young boy or mature male would not consent to their practices unless their lies are believed. They target defenseless babies without their consent to satisfy their own baseness. All is dressed up in ritual and sanctioned by society as revered tradition. The rite of circumcision primarily attacks human sexuality the main portal whereby communication with very deep levels of our consciousness occurs. So again we see how this world enslaves humanity by disconnecting us from Source.
“This child has been placed in a light that provides much too much scrutiny for a little boy,” Gillen said. “I blame no one but the mother for that.”
Ahhh! Me thinks that the supposedly "adult" men with such Neandrathal behaviour and beliefs are the ones afraid of the LIGHT they who love the dark ignorance, and secret places to do their sacrificial rites. It is written that this procedure puts our boys and men under the law. Are they afraid to allow a generation of clear thinking men in their community? Isn't it personal sacrifice of time, attention, compassion, love, etc., that are worthy sacrifice, and Not the forcing of one's beliefs on children and the cutting of the flesh of children who are not fully informed or old enough to decide such a life long detriment to their being whole? Seems their god divorced them for good reason. And it is very disturbing that they blame the Mother, who carried in her womb for nine months and suffered through the birthing of the child, for not acquiescing to this wicked practice. She seems to be the only one thinking clearly!
The concept that circumcision being linked to Autism, is tantamount to speculation, absolute rubbish. This is typical of the medical fraternity, to suggest that the snipping of skin leads to something as drastic as autism.
Anon 1, The Israeli people have been practicing circumcision ( bris milah ) for close to 5,000 years, not because it was religious, but because it was part of the Covenant that God made with Abraham, a "sign" between Him and his people Israel, This was to be done on the 8 day after birth seven days represents a cycle and every religion has a seven day week no matter which Calendar..... the eighth day represents a new beginning and the start of a new cycle and the bris or circumcision is the symbolic act and sign, signifying this and the covenant with the Creator Another reason for the 8th day, is because the babies coagulation is at its peak......it also ties in with Shabbat.......Circumcision was then part of the Laws.......an everlasting Covenant with God.
Israel could not enter into the Promised Land, until all the people were circumcised, God commanded Joshua to circumcise every male:
Joshua 5 vs 2-3 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time." So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Israel does not do this for health reasons, she does it, because it is the Covenant... suffice to say, that Liberal Jews forgo this covenant, thus they alienate themselves from God.....caught up in a Gentile world........and violated the Sign! and they wonder why, they are constantly reprimanded.....
No other people were commanded to " bris milah " or circumcise as a Nation!
During the 2nd world war, the troops in the desert favored circumcision, based on health reasons......sand was a problem...
This article does not say if the parents were Jews.......because there are many people that favor circumcision for other reasons......but I do believe the situation was badly out of control for the mother to abscond with the child, The parents obviously did not discuss it appropriately, which explains the child's fearful reaction.
On the medical Issue......in a report of 500,000 circumcisions in New York and 175,000 in the U.S. Armed Forces, not a single fatality occurred. These large studies are more reliable than reports of individual cases. The fact that isolated reports occur in the literature attests to the extreme rarity of death following circumcision." Likewise, Israel has been circumcising for thousands of years.......and if autism is a result of this " snippet of the skin" I'm very sure, that God got it right.......the first time!
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