The teenager’s counsel, Mohamad Zainuddin Abu Bakar, said the medical assistant attached to the Kuala Lipis hospital, who was the first defendant in the suit heard in the High Court, agreed to compensate a sum of RM150,000 to his client. — Reuters pic
“This sum was proposed by the court during discussions for a settlement and we have agreed to it,” he told reporters after case proceedings in the chambers of judge Datuk Nik Hasmat Nik Mohamad, who then recorded the out of court settlement decision.” The man filed the suit on July 19 last year through his mother, claiming that on December 13, 2010, at 10am, the first defendant had carried out the circumcision procedures on two boys, including her son, at a residence in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, with the knowledge and permission of the second and third defendant .
She also claimed that while her son was at KLH, the second defendant did not provide immediate treatment to the boy, as well as failing to inform her and other family members that her entire head of her son’s penis was severed. She claimed that the fourth defendant had assured her that her son’s penis glans would grow as he got older, but at the age of 17, it did not.