Five-Year-Old Awarded $31 MILLION After Midwife Cuts His Penis Off

I don’t even know how to start.

A five-year-old boy was just awarded $31 million for his botched circumcision… and while that’s bad enough, it’s what the midwife did (or more like, what she DIDN’T DO) that is INFURIATING:

According to this: 

The boy, who is only referred to as DJ, was given the circumcision at Life Cycle Pediatrics in Riverdale when he was just 18 days old in 2013.

A lawsuit filed by the boy’s family said part of his penis was severed during the procedure but clinic staff sent him home bleeding instead of trying to get it reattached.

Medical mistakes HAPPEN… but it sounds like if it weren’t for THIS HAG, this little boy might still have a full penis.

So yeah… that’s a problem.

Pope showed jurors the metal instrument, a Mogen clamp, that was used when the tip of the boy’s penis was amputated.

He said the boy’s mother wasn’t told that his penis had been severed and nobody, including Jones and Register, recommended emergency surgery to fix the problem.

WTF WTF WTFFFF.

THEY COULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM IN FOR EMERGENCY SURGERY AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE.

Instead, they just tried to hide their mistake.

Oh, it gets worse:

Pope said the pair stored the boy’s severed tissue in a fridge and allowed the baby’s mother to take him home. The lawsuit says the tissue was thrown out months later when it became apparent that legal action was imminent.

The tissue that could have been REATTACHED was just chilled and tossed.

These people are AWFUL.

And no… it’s not just a “little nick.” This poor boy lives in CONSTANT PAIN.

The attorney argued that if the boy had been sent to the emergency room with the severed tissue, medical staff might have been able to reattach it.

Instead, the boy was left disfigured and in constant pain.

The boy’s mother said she had to put a medical instrument in his penis three times a day so it wouldn’t close up after the procedure.

He has endured five surgeries to enable him to urinate more easily and potentially make it possible for him to have children in the future.

he court heard that the boy is also in a constant state of healing from the surgeries and has to remove scabbing just to urinate.

He will be evaluated for more surgeries when he hits puberty.

UGH. My heart BREAKS for this little boy. This sounds traumatizing. Imagine PEELING OFF SCABS every time you need to pee?

Horrific.

I usually don’t say this as I think most lawsuits are frivolous or overblown… but he deserves every last cent of those 31 million.