Our thanks to Dougie for this piece in today’s Guardian. The headline (above) is misleading. An extract from the piece:

“The draft CPS guidance states that, unlike female genital mutilation, “there is not a specific criminal offence of carrying out male circumcision”. [J4MB: This is knowingly disingenuous, as we would expect from the CPS. There is no ‘specific criminal offence’ of hammering a chisel into a person’s eye, but there doesn’t need to be. It would be an example of GBH, as is male circumcision.]

“However, this can be a painful and harmful practice, if carried out incorrectly or in inappropriate circumstances. [J4MB: Again, knowingly disingenuous. It is always painful where effective pain relief isn’t provided, and always harmful.] It may be a form of child abuse or an offence against the person,” it adds.” [J4MB: It already is an offence under OAPA1861, regardless of pain relief, the ‘correctness’ of the procedure, and the ‘appropriateness’ of the circumstances, being GBH, and it’s self-evidently a form of child abuse. No exemptions to the law are permitted on cultural or religious grounds, other than this one, to the best of my knowledge.]

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