Save money. circumcise your son with a filet knife
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Wyoming TribuneA detective testified that in March 2008, McGehee, concerned about the family's financial state, decided to circumcise his other son at home, using a filet knife.
"There was severe damage to the shaft of the penis," Detective Shawn Jenkins said. "There was a lot of skin removed."
The 3-month-old's scrotum was also lacerated during the procedure, Jenkins said. The child has subsequently endured extensive reconstructive surgeries, and more are expected.
Now apparently he has suffocated his other son.
Authorities say Samuel McGehee covered his son's head with a coat after the child wouldn't take a nap after being fed. An autopsy revealed that the boy, who had been left alone in the room for roughly four hours, died from asphyxiation.
"You might as well put that kid's head in a plastic bag," District Attorney Michael Blonigen said Tuesday during a preliminary hearing in Natrona County Circuit Court.
When they discovered the kids body, rather than take him to a hospital they went to their pastor
Bethany then wrapped the baby in a blanket and drove to her pastor's home, where someone called 911.
Asked why Bethany didn't take the child to the Wyoming Medical Center, Tweedy said the couple indicated that "they thought the pastor could breathe life into him again."
The pastor told investigators that when he saw the body, "his jaw was stiff, he couldn't get his mouth to open," suggesting that rigor-mortis had set in, Tweedy said.
As the pastor can't perform miracles Samuel McGehee has been charged with murder as well as felony child abuse for the botched circumcision.
God could not be reached for comment.
