A Missouri couple has been charged with child abuse after attempting to circumcise a child at their home last week.
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According to local reports, Tyler Wade Gibson, of Versailles, was charged with felony counts of abuse of a child and unauthorized practice of medicine or surgery. His wife, Bailey Alexus Gibson, was charged with child abuse.
“The procedure did not go as planned,” court documents say, according to ABC affiliate KMIZ.
The child was brought to one hospital on the night of Nov. 27 before being sent to another hospital for treatment.
The Gibsons then “left the hospital against medical advice,” reads the court documents.
Authorities in Morgan County say they received a call from the Department of Social Services on U.S. Thanksgiving Day about a child who had undergone a circumcision at a home.
Officers were sent to the couple’s home and put them under arrest.
The father is alleged to have told cops that he performed the procedure with a “utility tool,” court documents said.
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He also said he was not formally trained as a doctor but claimed he “conducted research and prayed a blessing.”
“Tyler further explained that he placed pads to catch the blood and sterilized the blade,” according to court documents.
The child was taken to the hospital because he was not prepared for the amount of bleeding, he told officers.
After staff warned the couple not to leave the hospital, he told officers they waited for four hours before going home “because they grew tired of waiting,” court documents said.
His wife alleged she assisted him with the circumcision.