This is 29 year old Keemonta Peterson and she was released on bail after being charged with assault and criminal mistreatment in Oregon. She had been languishing in Multonmah County Jail since being arrested last month after her son was rushed to the hospital with uncontrolled bleeding and the crying associated with extreme pain.
It seems Ms. Peterson had been reading her Bible and decided her son needed to be circumcised in accordance with one of the provisions held in the Torah portion. However, she didn't take her wee lad to a doctor nor synagogue. Instead she consulted YouTube.
After watching some videos of physicians and mohels performing circumcisions, she decided she was capable of some D.I.Y. snippage. Mummy weirdest got a boxcutter and pair of pliers from her toolbox and went to work on her 3 month old son's genitals. Needless to say, she is not a doctor and her son nearly died from massive blood loss and shock. After doctors figured out how this child was critically wounded, she was arrested and had custody of her other children removed.
It's absolutely bizarre what disturbed people will do when they read things as dangerous as the Bible, but I think it would have been better if she'd read on further. You see, being a single mother of 4, she should have known that Leviticus says that unchaste women are to be stoned to death. If she'd read that maybe she would have jumped head-first into a rock quarry instead of nearly chopping off her youngest child's private parts.
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