Judge Orders Mom To Have 4yo Boy Circumcised, Threatens Her With Jail, And Issues Gag Order

What would you do, or say, or think if you were ordered by the court to have your 4 year old circumcised, against your will? That’s exactly what happened to Heather Hironimus and her son Ryan Chase.

This isn’t really an issue of whether, or not, to circumcise, but there are a lot of other things wrong with this story and all add up to gross overreach of the judiciary and an all out assault on parental rights and family, not to mention the abuse of a child by the legal system.

Here’s the back story. Separated parents signed a parenting agreement to allow the boy’s father to be responsible for arranging the circumcision procedure. He never did. Two years later, he decided to proceed, when the boy was three years old, and so the trouble begins.

Judge ordered the procedure. Mom balked. There seems to have been a number of complications, in addition to the severity of circumcising a child at 3 years of age, which made her protest.

“The CDC states that in infancy, circumcision risks a long list of minor injuries, serious injuries and death, and that after age 1, the risk of adverse events is 9 percent, 10–20 times higher. Moreover, even one dose of general anesthesia risks brain damage, and this boy had a seizure coming out of general anesthesia before. The boy is likely already traumatized, and would be further by the surgery. The foreskin is the most sensitive part of the penis. Circumcision has no chance of benefiting this boy in childhood.” — Peter W. Adler, Legal Adviser to Attorneys for the Rights of the Child.

So, the mom took the child and went underground.

The case of little Chase Ryan made international news when Chase’s mother Heather Hironimusdefied a court orderand went into hiding with her son after a court ruled the child must have his foreskin cut.

After close to three months living with her son in a domestic violence shelter, Hironimus was arrested and charged with contempt of court. On May 22nd, weeping and visibly distraught, a handcuffed Hironimus signed consent forms after she was threatened with indefinite jail time if she refused:

“I will allow her to avoid incarceration or get out of jail if she signs the consent to the procedure.” – Judge Jeffery Dana Gillen

So, under duress, under the threat of indefinite incarceration, and separation from her child, she signed an agreement to allow the procedure. She’s still not off the hook from felony charges, or jail time.

And if all this wasn’t enough to rub any constitutional American the wrong way, take notice of a common trend with judicial authority, when they don’t like the scrutiny they receive from public eyes. They issue gag orders.

A gag order is in effect that will not permit any involved from discussing the case. The order also prevents the mother from attending any protests or sharing her story further.

Peaceful protests on site were scheduled for today and more may be scheduled throughout the week.

LiberalAmerica has tweets and social media responses from the hospital performing the procedure.

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