Man jailed for carrying out circumcisions on seven young boys in their homes
A man who called himself a doctor and circumcised seven little boys in their homes has been jailed for six and a half years for endangerment.
Philip Ogbewe referred to himself as ‘Dr Philip’ when he performed circumcisions on six infants and one five-year-old boy at various locations in Dublin, Kildare and Wexford in 2018 and 2019, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard this week.
He was contacted by parents who wanted their sons circumcised and who had heard of him through friends.
Some of these parents had tried to get their child circumcised in hospital, but could either not access the procedure, or had been quoted around €1,500 for the surgery.
Ogbewe charged the parents between €300 and €350 in most cases to carry out the procedure in their own homes, usually while the child was on their parent’s lap or – in one case – on a kitchen table.
He used an anaesthetic spray in some but not all instances, the prosecution stated.
On one occasion, Ogbewe handed a mother a plastic…
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