A four-year-old boy had his penis sliced off during circumcision, when he turned towards his dad to have his photo taken at the exact moment the doctor was making his incision.
The Swiss doctor who carried out the circumcision has been charged to court for causing serious bodily harm through negligence.
The incident happened when Algerian refugees in Geneva, who have not been publicly named, brought their son to the surgery to be circumcised.
As the doctor was making his incision, the boy’s father raised his hand to take a photo. His son turned toward him, moving his pelvis and causing the surgeon to slice off his penis, which fell to the floor.
The doctor did not have the correct size catheter to reattach the penis, Swiss newspaper, The Local, reported.
He told the family to remain in the waiting room has he tried to find one, according to the prosecution.
The family stayed in the waiting room for four hours before being taken to Geneva University Hospital around midnight.
The boy’s penis was finally re-attached, and three years after the procedure, he’s finally doing better.
In the months after the surgery, the boy couldn’t urinate normally, with the spray splitting “into two or three” streams, his mother said.
She said that his penis is shape is “satisfactory” but “a bit dented”, adding that he’s suffered loss of “substance” in the glands.
The boy has to wait until he is 18, however, to see if any further procedures on his reattached penis will be necessary.
The hospital where the victim's penis was reattached 