Just ran across this story on my MSN homepage. Really! This is a Crisis? Seems a woman, near Fort Lauderdale, is fighting her husband, in court, to prevent their 3 yr old son, from being circumcised! Seems she had agreed with her husband to do so, but now that the Doctor recommended it, for Medical reasons, she is going batshit crazy fighting it.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A West Boynton mom is now under court orders to let her 4-year-old son be circumcised, or she will be jailed.Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen on Friday said Heather Hironimus is in contempt of court for violating a 2012 parenting plan with the boy's father that authorizes the circumcision, and for recently disappearing with the child.
After the dad, Dennis Nebus, of Boca Raton, testified he couldn't find his son, the judge told the mom's just-hired new attorney that she has until 2 p.m. Tuesday to appear in his courtroom with the child or the judge will sign a warrant for her arrest.
Gillen said it was "reprehensible" that Hironimus — who violated an order to appear in court Friday with the child — has kept the boy's location hidden from the father since Feb. 20, as he was making arrangements with a Broward doctor to remove the child's foreskin.
The high-profile court battle between the parents has attracted an army of special interest groups opposed to circumcision. These so-called "intactivists" have mounted a social media campaign and staged protests outside medical offices in Plantation and West Boynton, and on Friday, outside the county courthouse in Delray Beach.
David Wilson, the Cocoa Beach-based founder of a group called Stop Infant Circumcision Society, has been following the case and was quick to blast the judge's ruling."This child is healthy and happy and doesn't want his (penis) cut as his dad has told him he was going to do," Wilson said. "It is utter insanity for our courts to order the sexual mutilation of this child."
The father said he decided to pursue the circumcision in December 2013 when the boy was 3, after noticing his son was urinating on his leg. The father on Friday said the boy's pediatrician had diagnosed a condition called phimosis, which prevents retraction of the foreskin.
Nebus said the mother has frightened the boy.Hmnnn.....Lot of important decisions out there, that need a rally cry from organized supporters to help with the decision and provide some Social Media attention. Didn't know this was considered "sexual mutilation", since it has been done for thousands of years, is a Jewish rite and is meant to be able to keep the penis cleaner and avoid infections. Didn't know it needed to be decided in court, whether to do it or not. Wonder what the woman's reasoning is, for not having it done. Why is she letting the child think they are going to "cut his penis off." I guess you never know what is that important to individuals. See the full story at the web address below:"My son has mentioned things to me that he's scared to have his penis cut off," he testified Friday.
The mother has argued the circumcision is not medically necessary, and she challenged Gillen's May order in the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach. The appellate court upheld Gillen's decision without comment.