Babysitter who attempted to circumcise 2-year-old boy charged with child abuse

[marmar]

(USA Today) A Florida man who police said apparently tried to circumcise a toddler he was babysitting has been charged with felony child abuse.

Timothoes Powell, 29, was arrested Monday on a first-degree aggravated child abuse charge in connection to the Oct. 21 incident involving a 2-year-old boy, the Holly Hill Police Department reported.

The city where the reported crime took place is in Volusia County about three miles north of Daytona Beach.

According to police, detectives learned about the child's injuries Oct. 21 when a state Department of Children and Families investigator asked for assistance with the case, the News Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network reported. ..............................(more)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/02/florida-man-arrested-attempted-circumcision/71421098007/

[FSogol]

1. A new low for Florida man? n/t

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. It will be hard to top

for sure. Yikes

[FSogol]

14. Just a little off the top, you mean.

[Kaleva]

16. Florida Man. Doing shit very few others would do

[RKP5637]

3. OMG FFS!!!! n/t

[yagotme]

4. I don't know if just "child abuse" would cover this...

Guess it's just what you can prove. I'd think some kind of sexual assault on a minor would be appropriate.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes of course it was sexual.

Charges should be filed reflecting that.

[yagotme]

6. "Charge what you can prove".

Bet a slick lawyer can get a sexual charge thrown out, as the accused was performing the circumcision as a "religious" act, and it wasn't sexual. Throw in that he's a nutcase, that charge may be difficult to stick, IMHO.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Start interviewing the parents of any other children this guy has been around.

Almost certainly there will be other violations, probably sexual.

It is going to be hard for this guy to pretend he is some sort of religious agent
authorized to cut off part of a baby's penis.

[yagotme]

11. If they get some hits, then charge him. nt

[Irish_Dem]

12. If trying to cut off a baby's penis isn't sexual, I don't know what is.

[yagotme]

13. A "religious" act.

Circumcision. Whether or not he's capable of doing it properly. Practicing medicine without a license. Assault with injury. Child abuse. These are readily provable. A sex charge would have to delve into his psyche, which is more difficult. If he has prior complaints for sexual misconduct, then it's a go. One time, he might slide on that charge, without a specific confession.

[Irish_Dem]

15. There are thousands of religious acts. Why does he choose the one where he can mutilate an infant penis?

He has no medical license, no religious standing.

There are people who are highly trained to delve into psyches.

And it doesn't take a PhD to see this man focused on the infant's
genitalia for a reason. Evidence at a crime scene leaves a lot of clues.

[newdayneeded]

7. Just another act of violence

due to religion. I can't wait until religion is a thing of the past on this planet!

[Hotler]

8. Looking at the picture, this guy doesn't give off a creepy vibe at all .....

[yagotme]

9. Yeah, if he showed up on my doorstep, wanting to babysit my 2 year old,

I'd hire him in a heartbeat...