Penis sucking Rabbi infects infants with Herpes

NEW YORK (AP) -- City health officials are investigating the death of
a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a
rabbi circumcised them.

Ten days after Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer performed religious circumcisions
on twins last October, one died of herpes and the other tested
positive for the virus, according to complaint filed by the health
department in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The complaint, reported in Wednesday's edition of the New York Daily
News, also said health officials later found a third baby who had
contracted herpes after being circumcised by Fischer in late 2003.

Under Jewish law, a mohel -- someone who performs circumcisions --
draws blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand,
but Fischer uses a rare practice where he uses his mouth.

This practice is not "rare" by any means, many rabbis still practice
this form of paedophilia with the full support of the jewish
community. Thus they commit double crime - they genitally mutilate
the child, then they suck his freshly-mutilated penis.

Fischer's lawyer, Mark Kurzmann, told the Daily News that Fischer was
cooperating with the investigation, although it's unclear whether
Fischer submitted to the city's request for a blood test.

"My client is known internationally as a caring, skilled, and
conscientious mohel," Kurzmann said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/02/circumcision.health.ap/index.html