John Jefferson
Left: Tyler Gibson. Right: Bailey Gibson (Morgan County Sheriff’s Office).
A father and mother allegedly performed a circumcision on their son at their Missouri home.
Staff from University Hospital in Columbia called a Department of Social Services hotline on Nov. 27 to say the parents showed up to the hospital with the child after conducting a circumcision at home, a probable cause arrest affidavit said.
The parents, later identified as 35-year-old Tyler Wade Gibson and 32-year-old Bailey Alexus Gibson, allegedly took the boy to Lake Regional Hospital and he was then transferred to University Hospital. They later left the hospital with the boy against medical advice, cops said.
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Deputies responded to the Gibson home to conduct interviews. After receiving Miranda warnings, Tyler Gibson allegedly admitted to doing the circumcision. He said despite not having any medical training, he completed the procedure after doing “research” and saying a “blessing,” the affidavit said.
“The procedure did not go as planned,” detectives with Morgan County Sheriff’s Department wrote in the affidavit.
The father said he used a sanitized blade to perform the procedure and gauze pads to catch the blood but “wasn’t prepared for the amount of bleeding,” the affidavit said. This prompted the parents to take the boy to the hospital.
Tyler Gibson reportedly said in the interview he left the blade he used in his bedroom, but cops did not find it while searching the home. Cops did find an empty box of medical gauze, per the affidavit.
Bailey Gibson told cops that while she was “very hesitant” about her husband completing the procedure, she helped him carry in out. She did not answer questions about why she followed through with it despite her hesitancy. The mother said they left the hospital after waiting for four hours. She then requested a lawyer. Social services responded to the home on Nov. 29 and removed five children.
Cops arrested the Gibsons on child abuse charges and took them to the Morgan County Jail where they have since bonded out. Their next court date is scheduled for Jan. 28. Her attorney did not immediately return a message seeking comment while her husband did not have an attorney listed.
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