Rabbi Eliyahu Shain, a famous Crown Heights-based Chabad rabbi-mohel, allegedly botched the circumcision of a child, causing that child "great physical pain and mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life” and permanent damage.
Rabbi Eliyahu Shain
Famous Chabad Mohel Allegedly Botched Bris, Permanently Damaged Child
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Rabbi Eliyahu Shain, a famous Crown Heights-based Chabad rabbi-mohel, allegedly botched the circumcision of a child, causing that child "great physical pain and mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life” and permanent damage, Courthouse News reported.
Benjamin Altman was allegedly born with hypospadias, a birth defect in which the urethra develops outside the body on the underside of the penis.
Shain – who has more than 40 years of experience and who claims to have done over 20,000 circumcisions – circumcised the boy at New York University Medical Center's Pediatric Associates of New York City in December 2009 but allegedly failed to recognize the birth defect or preserve the foreskin needed to repair it, the boy's mother, Staci H. Altman, alleges in a suit reportedly filed in Kings County (Brooklyn) Superior Court. She is reportedly asking for unspecified actual and punitive damages.