Yikes. 30-year-old Keemonta Peterson was sentenced to five years probation(following 25 days in jail) for attempting to circumcise her 3-month-old son last October. Going off of Old Testament readings and YouTube videos โ€” a dangerous pair โ€” Peterson botched the job, leaving her son in intense pain. Now healed, her son and three other children are being taken care of by the state. Peterson is currently undergoing psychological evaluation.

Another one for the “things to not try at home” list.

Alex Zielinski is a former News Editor for the Portland Mercury. She's here to tell stories about economic inequities, cops, civil rights, and weird city politics that you should probably be paying attention...

10 replies on “Portland Mother Gets Probation for DIY Circumcision”

  1. Five years of prohibition is just cruel. Well, maybe not for DIY dick-bleeding. People who cut up other people’s junk probably shouldn’t be allowed booze.

  2. Alright, I blame this on my brain melting due to the high temperature I’m running right now. Prohibition would be an unexpected twist…

  3. I’d like to have my parents brought up on charges for having me circumcised. I didn’t ask to have my penis maimed!

  4. Weird how if this was a father mutilating the genitals of his daughter, the jokes would dry up…this lady’s a bad mother, and DSS should get involved.

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