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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 34 points 3 years ago +34 / -0

This article buries the lead so hard that it doesn't even appear in the story. This isn't about it being illegal to raise an uncircumcised son or something.

The parents signed a contract as part of their separation. One stipulation of said contract was that the child get circumcised. Apparently he had phimosis. The mother signed off, then kidnapped the child and ran away. So now she's being held until the circumcision under breach of contract.

It doesn't matter what a contract says, courts take breach of contract very seriously. This is being made out to be a case of foreskin-hungry monsters victimizing an innocent woman who dindu nothin, but it's actually about a meth head who signed away her son's rights and then changed her mind when it was way too late and tried to "correct" the mistake by being hostile and uncooperative. The only reason she's not being held without bail due to felony kidnapping is because she's a woman.

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– deleted 32 points 3 years ago +32 / -0
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– LauriThorne 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

If the kids phimosis actually required treatment and she refused she's not exactly "protecting" him.

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– sasanian 26 points 3 years ago +26 / -0

Kids don't get phimosis, it is literally trying to diagnose a child with underdeveloped genitals. The foreskin naturally separates from the glans as a part of normal development. If it's still adhered after puberty, then you can treat it, which almost never requires surgery btw.

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– Assassin47 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Even then, at some point if the kid finds it uncomfortable and wants to go through with the circumcision then that's his choice. They shouldn't do it to innocent babies.

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– LauriThorne 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

It says, right in that article, that kids get it starting between ages 5-7.

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– ArcaneSlang 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

That is totally ignorant. Uncircumcised boys get phimosis when the foreskin isn’t cleaned and properly taken care of. It can become quite painful and infected. A person I know had this happen and she’s not even a meth head.

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– deleted 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0
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– MargarineMongoose 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Can confirm. That shit is painful.

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– deleted 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0
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– ArcaneSlang 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Do you know what phimosis is? Circumcising is typically the treatment for it. If the mom took proper care phimosis wouldn’t necessarily have happened. But look at her frail skin picked body…..

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– Adamrises 20 points 3 years ago +20 / -0

I mean, I feel like you shouldn't be able to sign a contract guaranteeing a mutilation to begin with and any court trying to uphold it delegitimizes itself by doing so regardless of the legality of a contract on its own. I can't have a divorce contract stating I would only rape my child once a week, then have a court only jail me once I do it twice.

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– fauxgnaws 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Circumcision is not illegal so the courts can enforce it, rape is illegal so they can't.

It's like if your kid has 6 fingers you can say well I'll give up my parental rights if you agree to get his sixth finger sawed off. Kid was born with 6 fingers so chopping one off is mutilation, but it's legal to do and at least in America most people would rather their kid have only 5 fingers.

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– deleted 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0
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– KrebStar2000 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Then we’d be having a conversation about forced plastic surgery for facial scar removal.

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– Adamrises 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Got it, glad the government saying "this is legal" means its totally okay and should be allowed to be enforced and happen. I'm sure you apply this standard totally fairly.

at least in America most people would rather their kid have only 5 fingers.

Good to know you support the trans rights. Since after all, mutilating a child is totally okay to you on such flimsy things as "we'd prefer it." Just lop those tits and dicks off then.

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– fauxgnaws 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Make it illegal as it should be. You don't think it should be illegal, like rape?

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– reidj 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

"Phimosis is the inability to retract the prepuce after puberty due to a narrow preputial opening. Although the diagnosis of phimosis is often made in childhood, in most cases, it is just an excuse to justify circumcision." - Ricardo Gonzalez and Barbara M. Ludwikowski. Handbook of Urological Diseases in Children. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2011. P. 135.

The problem is the court may well be putting a contract ahead of what is in the boy's best interests.

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

They wouldn't be courts if they didn't put the law above public interest.

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– Assassin47 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

I do not understand why they simply did not take custody away from the mother (if she's endangering her child by not treating his disorder - or for the kidnapping) and then the father/state could approve the procedure. Why jail?

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– WhoIsThatMaskedMan 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Well you see, Florida has a lot of a certain kind of person in it. A kind of person who enjoys wearing small hats and writing up contracts. And that kind of person gets very, very angry when you break said contracts. So they use their influence, of which they have none and it is illegal to claim otherwise, to get breach of contract elevated to one of the highest crimes in the land.

In short, they're making an example of her.

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– deleted 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

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