Judge and parents call for boys to be protected from circumcision
A judge, parents and police have called for boys to be protected from the harms of ritual circumcision. The calls came on Wednesday during the sentencing of Mohammad Siddiqui, an ex-doctor who was given a five-year custodial sentence for child cruelty and actual bodily harm related to ritual circumcisions of boys. Siddiqui also pled guilty to administering prescription only medications in some of the circumcisions. In his sentencing remarks at London Inner Crown Court, judge Noel Lucas KC said the case has shown that “safeguards and protections must now be put in place and put in place as a matter of urgency, to ensure that babies and young children are protected.” Lucas also noted the calls of parents of Siddiqui’s victims for boys to be protected: “[one boy’s] mother describes the unregulated nature of non-therapeutic circumcisions as being absurd and endangering the health of children.” “The fact Siddiqui could carry on with such impunity and affect so many innocent lives is surely all the evidence that is needed to ensure this gap in legislation is …
