New York – The New York City Health Department said it cannot complete an investigation into who infected four infants with herpes through an Orthodox circumcision rite because the boys’ families will not identify the mohels.
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“Unfortunately, some in the community are resistant to sharing the name of the mohels,” Health Department spokesman Christopher Miller told DNAinfo New York on Tuesday. “This is a very insular community.”
According to DNAinfo, six families in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, have seen children contract herpes since 2015 from metzitzah b’peh, which involves the ritual circumciser, or mohel, cleaning the circumcision wound by oral suction. Among the six families, only two have provided the names of their mohels, Miller said.
In March, the city ordered those two mohels to stop performing metzitzah b’peh. A herpes infection in a newborn baby can cause brain damage and death.
Rabbi David Niederman, head of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, told DNAinfo that the community was “fully cooperating” with the investigation. However, an unnamed source said the community is skeptical about the allegations against the two named mohels because it believes the city wants to make all metzitzah b’peh illegal.
“That’s why we’re not willing to give out the mohels. We know the city is going to ban them without giving them due process,” the source said. “There is not proof that they actually infected the baby.”
How can there be proof without a name? There must be an investigation into the mohel, and only then can there be proof.
A prejudicial statement that any judge would strike from the record.
“The mohel who gave herpes”?
Rather the mohel who performed the bris.
By using that language they have revealed their attitude of having condemned without proof.
Sometimes it’s difficult to read comments like these. We are supposedly smart people. Evidently, we are the smartest dumb people on earth.
Read the article.
1. 6 babies contracted herpes in a reasonably short period of time, after their bris due to metzitzah b’peh.
2. Two parents exposed the Mohel, who have been prohibited from performing future Brisim. That wouldn’t happen without the Mohel(i’m) being tested first and confirmed to be a carrier.
3. Herpes in an infant can lead to brain damage or death.
Ask yourselves this: Would you want your child (ch’v) exposed to such a Mohel because people shielded him for any reason. Those Mohelim, intentionally or not, become rodfim who are putting innocent children’s lives in danger because of foolish parents, their advisors and people like you.
Rodfim
How come no girls get herpes?
It won’t take a Columbo, a Kojak, a McGarret, or even a simple yenta to find out the names of the herpes infected mohels. Their names will be publicized shortly.
One more thing for the contract- herpes screening. Don’t even *think* of trying to get married without that test.
When their precious boychics can’t find a wife…
Perhaps if the DOH would offer some reward for anyone who will provide this information they would be more successful in ID’ing the ‘Mohalim’. These people who refuse to do so are doing a grave disservice to the public!!
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