Female Genital Mutilation Must Happen to Every Girl as Part of Culture, Alleged Victim Tells Court

ABC NEWS: A young girl has described the religious ceremony where she allegedly underwent female genital mutilation (FGM), the New South Wales Supreme court was told.

"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

Stop Female Genital Mutilation!


Mark Alexander

Message to the Barbarians Within: Cutting that Clit(oris) is Illegal in the UK!
With many thanks to Always On Watch for bringing this to my attention:

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BBC: The Metropolitan Police is offering a £20,000 reward for information which would bring to justice anyone involved in female genital mutilation.

The campaign is being launched at the start of the summer holidays, during which young girls - mainly from African communities - are thought most at risk.

Mutilation involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia for cultural reasons.

Up to 7,000 girls in the UK are seen as at risk of this form of circumcision.

The long summer holiday is seen as the most likely time for parents to seek the procedure for their daughter as she has time to recover from what is usually a brutal ordeal before returning to school.

She can be sent abroad for the treatment, but police say they know it is also being carried out within the UK itself. Police plea on genital mutilation (more)

THE GUARDIAN:
Met’s unique £20,000 reward to stop mutilation of women

Mark Alexander