Heather Hironimus

(Newser) - A parental battle over a boy's circumcision came to an emotional end in a Florida courtroom today when Heather Hironimus reluctantly agreed to let the procedure take place. Hironimus has been jailed for a week over her opposition to the circumcision, and she relented only when a judge informed...

(Newser) - A Florida mother has been jailed for the better part of a week over her attempts to keep her 4-year-old son from being circumcised. Heather Hironimus went into hiding with the boy after losing a court battle over the decision to the boy's father, but she was arrested Thursday...

(Newser) - The fate of a 3-year-old boy's foreskin is playing out in Florida's courtrooms. The boy's mother, Heather Hironimus, doesn't want him circumcised, but father Dennis Nebus disagrees, reports the Broward-Palm Beach New Times . The two never married, but when they broke up in 2011, they signed...