Stunned community unites in grief after boy dies

MEMBERS of the Nigerian community filed in and out of Idehen and Mabel Osaghae’s rented townhouse on a hill overlooking Waterford’s quays yesterday afternoon, trying to console them after their son’s death.

Stunned neighbours remained indoors as word of the death of 29-day-old Callis, after a botched circumcision, spread across the city.

The infant was rushed to Waterford Regional Hospital on Sunday night but died after losing a large amount of blood. It is not yet clear if the procedure took place in his own home, or elsewhere in the city.