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Mom signs consent for son's circumcision to get out of jail — but now faces new criminal charge

After months and years of fighting to stop her son from being circumcised, a West Boynton mother on Friday signed her consent for the procedure moments after a judge had again ordered her to remain in jail until she did.

Heather Hironimus, who had lost efforts in two courts to block the child's father, was arrested May 14 in Broward after months of hiding with the boy in a domestic violence shelter.

A defiant Hironimus, 31, at first refused Friday to sign the form and was about to return to Palm Beach County Jail after Circuit Judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen granted full custody and parental decisions to the father for the time being.