Another baby dies in Italy after a home-made circumcision

There was another death of a child in Italy after a home-made circumcision. This latest death occurred in Genoa on Tuesday and the child’s Nigerian mother and grandmother have been taken to the police headquarters questioning.

The father is said to be outside the country.

The mother, 25, is said to have called the emergency services but the child was dead when they arrived. Investigators suspect that a third person carried out the circumcision and are trying to track that person down. It is the third such case in recent months in Italy.

Last month a five-month-old baby died in Bologna’s Sant’Orsola hospital following a botched circumcision, allegedly by his parents from Ghana.

Another small child died in December due to an illegal circumcision performed at Monterotondo, near Rome.

Via ANSA