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More details emerge about Portland mom who is accused of trying to circumcise her baby at home

Published: Friday, April 08, 2011, 7:35 AM

The 29-year-old mom told a Portland police detective that she�d been inspired to circumcise her baby after reading the Old Testament.

The only problem was, her son was already three months old. And she was aware that pediatricians at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital wouldn�t circumcise him because he was too old, she told police.

According to papers filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court this week and obtained by The Oregonian, the prosecution publicly outlined its case for the first time:

Keemonta Peterson told police she watched some YouTube videos about circumcisions. Then around midnight on the morning of Oct. 24 - using a box cutter as a scalpel and a pair of pliers as a tourniquet - she began the procedure. She had no experience.

When the bleeding wouldn�t stop, she tried to stitch her baby up. Her 13-year-old son watched on in distress. After two hours of uncontrolled bleeding, Peterson decided she needed help and called 9-1-1 to her home near East Burnside Street and 127th Avenue.

Medics rushed the infant to OHSU, where he was initially listed in critical condition.

Deputy district attorney John Casalino offered these details in a memorandum opposing Peterson�s attempt to get out of Multnomah County jail this week. Peterson had been locked up since her arrest March 8.

The unemployed mother of four was being held in lieu of $550,000 bail, under accusations of first- and second-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment. To be convicted of first-degree assault, a judge must find that Peterson caused �serious physical injury to a child under six years of age.�

According to the prosecutor�s motion, a doctor described the baby�s condition upon arrival as life threatening, and the pain as immense.
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Judge David Rees lowered Peterson�s bail to $5,000. She posted $500 � the required 10 percent � and was released Wednesday to the supervision of the deputy. She must check in regularly, among other conditions.

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