Boy, 6, circumcised by 'genie'

Boy, 6, circumcised by 'genie'

TANGERANG, Indonesia: It was a painful experience for Satrio
Wibowo, 6, when he found his penis had swollen all of a sudden
while he sat in the front porch of his parents' house in
Rancagong village, Legok district, on Friday afternoon.

"We tried to get help from shamans but strangely none of them
were around ... we suspected it was the work of a genie," the
boy's mother Titin, a factory worker, said on Monday.

Siswo, the boy's father, who is a street vendor, claimed they
could not afford to take their only son to the hospital.

But when the confused mother checked on Saturday morning, the
painful swelling, as well as the foreskin of the boy's penis were
gone as if it had been circumcised, but without a trace of a cut
or stitches.

Circumcision is essential for Muslim boys to mark the arrival
of puberty. -- JP