A DOCTOR accused of circumcising a child without consent was cleared of all charges last Friday (10).
Dr Balvinder Mehat, 61, was reported to have performed the procedure on the three-month old baby in July 2013.
The procedure is said to have taken place when the child’s grandmother took him for surgery in Nottingham.
The GP, from the Bakersfield Medical Centre, was accused of performing a non-therapeutic circumcision on the infant for religious reasons rather than medical.
Initially a complaint was made to Nottinghamshire police regarding the incident, but they deemed it not a criminal matter.
The case was revisited only after the child’s mother received help from a human rights lawyer and an anti-circumcision group. Mehat was arrested by police in June 2017.
The boy's mother claimed the surgery has brought on physical problems for her son, including water infections and inflammation.
She said: "I will fight this until my last breath if I have to, it's the only way I can possibly look my son in his eyes."
According to guidelines from the British Medical Association, non-therapeutic circumcisions must only be performed when both parents give consent.
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