1 year old boy loses his penis in a circumcision performed on January 5th by a doctor in Liberia. Phillip Zinnah, Sr. 25, father of the boy explained that he took his son to the TB Annex to one Dr. Nimley for circumcision, but it all went wrong when the doctor completely cut off the boy’s penis, leaving him in severe pain. The doctor is not responding for the damages, and the institution, TB Annex, says they don't perform circumcisions and this would have been done in secret by the doctor.
Meanwhile, a child's life has been irreversibly damaged in a way to seems to echo the baby hurt by a rabbi from Pittsburgh and a Memphis baby hurt at Christ Community Health Centers last year. A Saudi baby also had his penis partially cut off last November.
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What Brian Morris, in conjunction with Richard Wamai (research on HIV), Aaron Tobian (Johns Hopkins University), Ronald Gray (Johns Hopkins University and director of one of the 3 African trials on HIV and circumcision), Robert Bailey (responsible for another one of the 3 African trials), Daniel Halperin (author of several papers on HIV and circumcision), Thomas Wiswell (author of the often cited study on circumcision and UTIs) and others, wrote on their propaganda paper from 2012, "A 'snip' in time":
"Infant circumcision is safe, simple, convenient and cost-effective. The available evidence strongly supports infancy as the optimal time for circumcision."
Of course, for those illustrious individuals, this child's horrible experience is simply an "adverse event". According to a 2012 paper by Robert Bailey cited by the World Health Organization:
"In developed countries, adverse events following neonatal circumcision are well documented and their incidence is very low, from 0.2 to 0.6%.5 Before the RCTs, outcomes in Africa for male circumcision among adults were poorly documented. In a review,6 adverse event rates following African male circumcisions ranged from 0 to 24%. The RCTs, which provided services in a clinical trial setting, reported the following adverse event rates: 3.8% in Orange Farm, South Africa; 1.5% in Kisumu, Kenya; and 3.6% in Rakai, Uganda.1,7,8 Most recently, at the former Orange Farm RCT site, 1.8% of medical male circumcisions offered in one high-volume facility resulted in an adverse event"Let's stop treating children as statistics. Let's respect children. Children of all genders deserve to grow with intact genitals.
Life is truly a lottery. Whether or not you get to be fucked up for life by the misadventure of those who are supposed to be doing most to protect you, is a game of chance. There are winners and there are losers, like this mutilated young boy.
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