"It's part of our culture and that has to happen to every girl," she said in a 2012 recording of a police interview aired in court.
The girl's mother, a member of Sydney's Dawoodi Bohra community, is accused of arranging separate FGM procedures on two of her daughters when they were seven years old, between 2009 and 2012.
Dawoodi Bohra is a sect within Shia Islam mostly found in India, Pakistan and Yemen.
Also on trial is a former nurse and midwife who allegedly performed the procedures. » | Claire Aird | Tuesday, September 15, 2015
