Video about baby's penis cut off in circumcision

[SplitDik (imported)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xzVmC7Zv8

Published on Nov 15, 2013

A three-month-old infant has been left mutilated after doctors cut off his penis during what was supposed to be a 20-minute circumcision procedure.

Memphis, Tenn. mother Maggie Rhodes is now regretting taking her son Ashton to the Christ Community Health Center in August to get circumcised.

"After I went home and I discovered that my son's penis was not there, I immediately froze, like, oh my God," Rhode told My Fox Memphis.

Rhodes said she was told the procedure would only take 20 minutes but was left waiting for hours as she heard her baby scream throughout the entire procedure.

"It took them about three hours to do the circumcision and so my baby screamed the whole three hours, like the whole process," Rhodes said. "Then even when she gave him back to us, he was still screaming."

Rhodes said she was not notified of the botched procedure, instead she and her sister made the shocking discovery at home when Ashton was still screaming and they saw his diaper filled with blood.

"When she pulled back the cloth, like the thing was like, gone. She cut up instead of down, instead of cutting around the top of the penis," Rhodes said.

All that was left was a partial penis and his testicles. Rhodes said Ashton urinates through a hole in his penis and screams in agony.

Ob/Gyn Doctor Kent Lee, who did not perform Ashton's procedure, told WMC-TV that most circumcisions are safe, but there are those rare occasions where mistakes happen. But this mistake is a big one.

"I've been doing this for 20 years, and I have never ever seen anybody with everything completely cut off," Lee said. "Actual penectomy is extraordinary rare."

The American Academy of Pediatrics says it's found the health benefits of newborn circumcision outweigh the risks. Still, one in 500 newborn boys experience significant acute complications as a result of circumcision. Rhodes wishes she not had her son circumcised.

"You try to be the best mom you can be, but it's like the attack of the enemies is always there," she told WMC-TV. "I feel like I failed my son."

Rhodes has hired an attorney and is pursuing a medical malpractice suit against Christ Community Health Center.

[Cainanite (imported)]

I've actually had direct contact with this woman via text message and Facebook. She was told that circumcision HAD to be done. She was pressured into doing it by greedy and misinformed nurses and doctors.

This is actually 1 of about 6 cases of penectomy of infants I have seen in the last year. I know personally of 3 deaths, countless hemorrhages, loss of glans, several cases of complete degloving of the penis when all of the outer skin of the penis is amputated during a circumcision.

There is also one case of a baby being over medicated and going into a coma. They now suspect he will have permanent brain damage.

The true numbers of horrific "catastrophic" complications the CDC and the AAP estimate to be between 0.2% and 2%, though they both admit that the true rates of complication are unknown. The CDC has beet trotting out a 1.5% catastrophic complication rate lately as a "benefit of circumcision."

Let's do the math here.

With about 1,000,000 circumcisions done in the USA each year, that means about 15,000 to 20,000 boys every year have complications just like the boy in the above story. That is about 50 babies per day, or over 2 per hour.

Doesn't that just blow your mind?

The reason we don't hear about this more often is that the parents are usually too embarrassed to say anything and it becomes a private family matter, but the numbers exist if you know where to look. Also hospitals are quick to pay the parents hush money. (AKA settle out of court.)

It's good news if you are into torturing babies.

It's not such good news if you actually ARE a male baby born in the USA.

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

I'm wondering whether any of the men reading this thread are, themselves, victims of a botched circumcision, perhaps seeking help here in dealing with the aftermath. If the statistic of 15,000 per year has held for decades, there might be something like a million men and boys who are victims, perhaps most having grown up never having any memory of having a penis. I can only imagine the emotional pain of going through adolescence to early adulthood that way. My deepest sympathy to any reading this.

Sandi

[Cainanite (imported)]

Here is a page dedicated to men who have circumcision botches. Of course these are the men who have voluntarily chosen to share the damage that was done to them. It doesn't come close to a real picture of the total harm that has happened.

http://www.circumcisionharm.org/gallery1.htm

[Cainanite (imported)]

Here is another more graphic page.

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restric/Botched1sb.html

[SplitDik (imported)]

The thing is that when you undergo medical procedures they always list a bunch of risks but they don't list the percentage. So it seems like they're just listing it as a legal precaution. But if you research you'll find that a lot of these side effects and risks are pretty high. I mean a 1.5 percent chance means that we each know several men who had botched circumcisions. My doctor often wants me to take Crestor as I have borderline high cholesterol. However, 24% of people get muscle pain/weakness (because these types of drugs muck up the co-enzyme Q pathway for muscle repair) and that means that there are probably even more people who have some of that effect without even knowing it. A particularly bad one was many of my friends' kids have been diagnosed with anxiety (this is sort of the diagnosis du jour for behavior problem kids) and doctors try to prescribe them Risperidal. Well I looked it up and one of the common side effects is serious hormonal disruption that causes significant weight gain (like 20%) including *severe* gynomastia. And it is really common, like again in the 20% range. Can you imagine subjecting your kid to that just because they can't settle down? But the information that comes with these drugs doesn't really give the percentages, but just puts it in the long list of side effects.

The thing with risks is that most people say they "accept a risk" but they really mean "I don't think it will happen to me". Accepting a risk actually doesn't mean that, rather it means "I'm sort of okay if it happens to me".

[dark_soul (imported)]

Interesting video and photos, thanks for sharing, Greetings

[jacb1951 (imported)]

now I feel really lucky. When I was growing up my mom told me the doctor told her he wanted to do a circumcision on me but my penis was way too small and then he recommended my parents wait a few years and have it done. She told me she then told him that they never asked for me to be circumcised so she never had it done. I often wondered why she even told me that story. Was it because I really did and still do have a small penis ? Could she have been waiting to see if I would want it done. we weren't all that religious and not of any faith that would require it. As a kid I just wasn't ready to make any such decisions. Now as an adult if anything I would cut the penis off rather than mutilate it.

[dark_soul (imported)]

Here is another more graphic page.

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restric/Botched1sb.html

Thank you by page Cainanite.

[Ernie of Maine (imported)]

So what are yhe HEATH BENEFITS of circumcision/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xzVmC7Zv8

Published on Nov 15, 2013

A three-month-old infant has been left mutilated after doctors cut off his penis during what was supposed to be a 20-minute circumcision procedure.

Memphis, Tenn. mother Maggie Rhodes is now regretting taking her son Ashton to the Christ Community Health Center in August to get circumcised.

"After I went home and I discovered that my son's penis was not there, I immediately froze, like, oh my God," Rhode told My Fox Memphis.

Rhodes said she was told the procedure would only take 20 minutes but was left waiting for hours as she heard her baby scream throughout the entire procedure.

"It took them about three hours to do the circumcision and so my baby screamed the whole three hours, like the whole process," Rhodes said. "Then even when she gave him back to us, he was still screaming."

Rhodes said she was not notified of the botched procedure, instead she and her sister made the shocking discovery at home when Ashton was still screaming and they saw his diaper filled with blood.

"When she pulled back the cloth, like the thing was like, gone. She cut up instead of down, instead of cutting around the top of the penis," Rhodes said.

All that was left was a partial penis and his testicles. Rhodes said Ashton urinates through a hole in his penis and screams in agony.

Ob/Gyn Doctor Kent Lee, who did not perform Ashton's procedure, told WMC-TV that most circumcisions are safe, but there are those rare occasions where mistakes happen. But this mistake is a big one.

"I've been doing this for 20 years, and I have never ever seen anybody with everything completely cut off," Lee said. "Actual penectomy is extraordinary rare."

The American Academy of Pediatrics says it's found the health benefits of newborn circumcision outweigh the risks. Still, one in 500 newborn boys experience significant acute complications as a result of circumcision. Rhodes wishes she not had her son circumcised.

"You try to be the best mom you can be, but it's like the attack of the enemies is always there," she told WMC-TV. "I feel like I failed my son."

Rhodes has hired an attorney and is pursuing a medical malpractice suit against Christ Community Health Center.