$100 million awarded in Palm Beach County's boy botched circumcision case

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'A Palm Beach County jury awarded a boy $100 million in a medical malpractice case after a failed circumcision he received as a newborn by Dr. Berto Lopez of West Palm Beach.

According to the lawsuit filed by the boy’s family, Dr. Lopez butchered the infant’s surgical procedure on February 15, 2021, ten days after the Florida Board of Medicine revoked his medical license.

“At first, I didn’t really know what was going on. I wanted to believe the doctor because he said he hit an artery, and that’s why all the bleeding was happening. It was fairly quickly that we realized that he committed such a horrible injury on our son,” said the Riviera Beach father, who we’re not identifying to protect his son’s identity.

“The damage is almost the entire head of the penis has been transected or amputated,” Cohen said. “In the records it says, more than 50%."'