독일에 있어서 종교적 이유로 아동의 포경수술을 행한 의사의 형사책임

Criminal Liability for a religious circumcision on a boy of surgeon in Germany

The focus of this paper is the criminal assessment of religiously moti vated circumcision in Germany. A circumcision could be justified based u pon an effective consent given by the person concerned. In the case of a religious circumcision on a boy without a medical indication however, this consent by the person concerned could not be justified according a to judgement of district court Köln(LG Köln). Therefore surgeon or urolog ist who performs the circumcision is punishable according to the German Criminal Code. Thereafter a new Act justifying the circumcision is legislated. The current german legal status may help us to solve a similar case.