{"id":95352,"date":"2025-10-21T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/95352\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:24:10","slug":"bogus-doctor-who-was-on-bail-for-botched-procedure-on-child-when-he-circumcised-seven-young-boys-launches-appeal-against-his-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/95352\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus doctor who was on bail for botched procedure on child when he circumcised seven young boys launches appeal against his sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Philip Ogbewe was arrested in 2018 in relation to a circumcision of a child, who was hospitalised, and was on bail for this offence when he carried out these crimes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Philip Ogbewe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fa51297f-fec7-4ca7-b970-e87499617de7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Philip Ogbewe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A bogus doctor, who was on bail for a botched procedure on a child when he circumcised seven young boys, has launched an appeal against his jail sentence, arguing he was not given sufficient credit for \u201cseeing the light\u201d and recognising the wrongfulness of his actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Philip Ogbewe referred to himself as \u201cDr Philip\u201d when he performed circumcisions on six infants and one five-year-old boy at various locations in Dublin, Kildare and Wexford in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Ogbewe was arrested in 2018 in relation to a circumcision of a child, who was hospitalised, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-95352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}