Mom gets probation after Bible-inspired botched circumcision
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) A 30-year-old Portland woman who botched a home
circumcision of her 3-month-old son has been sentenced to five years of
probation.
Keemonta Peterson was arrested last April after a lengthy
investigation into the October 2010 incident. Peterson, inspired after
reading the Old Testament, decided she wanted her son to be circumcised.
But because she believed he was too old to be circumcised by
doctors, she decided to do it herself, after watching YouTube videos.