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REGINA — A Regina mother has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence after the tip of her baby’s penis was severed during a circumcision.

In an interview, the woman says she and her husband are worried about their son’s self-esteem as he grows up.

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The circumcision happened last November when the boy was nine-days old. The mother has filed a statement of claim against the doctor, his business, and an unidentified intern she believes did the procedure.

The woman, whom The Canadian Press is not naming to protect the identity of the child, said she and her husband took their newborn to the Victoria East Medical Clinic in Regina for the procedure.

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The mother is of African descent and said circumcision is part of her family’s culture.

“It was already taking too long,” she said, remembering how quick the procedure had been for her older son eight years earlier. “I could hear the baby crying so much.”

She said Dr. Owen Miller, the physician they understood was going to perform the circumcision, came into the waiting area and was apologetic.