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General Practitioner in Trento Placed Under House Arrest Over Illegal Child Circumcisions

Investigators cite unsafe practices that endangered child patients.

Overview

  • Prosecutors ordered home detention for the physician and the preventive seizure of his unauthorized clinic following a NAS investigation.
  • Investigators say at least 40 children, including some from other regions, underwent circumcisions at the site since 2022.
  • Several minors required urgent hospital care due to inadequate procedures, including one hospitalization for benzodiazepine intoxication.
  • The doctor allegedly used his children as assistants without nursing qualifications, and the adult son was reported for illegal practice.
  • Searches recovered a restraint couch, an electric scalpel, benzodiazepines and a local anesthetic, a card advertising circumcisions, and a receipt book.