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Man circumcises nine boys with a soldering gun – receives a suspended sentence,” translated from “Omskar nio pojkar med lödpistol – får villkorlig dom,” SVT Nyheter, November 11, 2020:
During a period between April and May 2018, a man circumcised nine boys with a soldering gun in Söderhamn and Gävle. Now the man is sentenced to probation, with 180 hours of community service. He must also pay SEK 55,000 [$6,380 USD] in damages.
The man is in his 30s and is not a licensed doctor in Sweden, and used a non-medical soldering gun when he performed the circumcisions. This was done at the guardians’ request, and for this he received approximately SEK 2,000 [$230 USD] in payment from the vast majority of guardians.
The man himself has, however, stated that he has medical education from Syria and thus should be authorized to perform circumcisions. Doctors who met the children after the operations, however, have stated, among other things, that they did not believe that a real surgeon performed the operations, and that they were careless circumcisions. Journals describe, among other things, how a couple of the boys had so much pain after the procedures that they had difficulty walking.
Receives a suspended sentence
The man has now been convicted of assault, causing bodily harm and violating the law on the circumcision of boys. The penalty is a suspended sentence with community service for 180 hours. If imprisonment had been chosen as a punishment instead, he would have been sentenced to eight months. The man must also pay SEK 55,000 [$6,380 USD] in damages, and an additional SEK 33,000 [$3800 USD] to the state.
At the same time, the man was acquitted of four counts of assault and five counts of causing bodily harm. The reasons for this were that the judgment states that it was not proven that the inflammation, in some of the cases, came from the procedures, and that it was not proven that the pain was of such a nature that it should be considered abuse.
The prosecutor had previously demanded two years in prison for the man.
– I’ll accept this now. But it is not impossible that there will be an appeal, says Elin Källberg, chamber prosecutor.
