WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A mother jailed for fleeing with her son in an attempt to avoid his circumcision has voluntarily dismissed a federal lawsuit in the case.
Heather Hironimus, 31, disappeared with the boy in March after she ignored an order by Palm Beach County Judge Jeffrey Gillen to appear in court and consent to the procedure. Gillen issued a warrant for her arrest, and she was taken into custody last Thursday in Deerfield Beach after nearly three months in hiding.
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"Unfortunately, Judge (Kenneth) Marra was not only not sympathetic, he seemed quite hostile toward our position," Hironimus' attorney, Thomas Hunker, posted Wednesday on Facebook.
Court documents show that Hironimus and the boy's father, Dennis Nebus, had a son together on Oct. 31, 2010. Although they never married, the couple is considered the legal and biological parents of the boy.
Hironimus and Nebus agreed to a circumcision in a 2012 legal document, but Hironimus later changed her mind and fought to prevent the boy's circumcision. Circuit and appellate judges have sided with the father.
Prior to her arrest, Hunker, filed an injunction in federal court to prevent the circumcision.
In the first federal hearing in the case Monday in West Palm Beach, Marra questioned an attorney for Hironimus incredulously.
Marra received assurances from Ira Marcus, a Fort Lauderdale attorney representing Nebus in the federal case, that the boy's foreskin wouldn't be removed without 10 days' notice "as a courtesy to the court."
The voluntarily dismissal prevents the case from being filed again in federal court.
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