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How Can We Let This Happen.
In a modern Western democracy just how are these things allowed to happen and what more can we do to prevent it?
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The legislation to criminalise this has been in place for 27 years and there have only been 3 prosecutions in all that time. All of these prosecutions failed.
With an estimated 24,000 girls below the age of 15 considered to be at risk, isn't it about time we found a way to tackle this problem?
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The legislation to criminalise this has been in place for 27 years and there have only been 3 prosecutions in all that time. All of these prosecutions failed.
With an estimated 24,000 girls below the age of 15 considered to be at risk, isn't it about time we found a way to tackle this problem?
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AOG - Agreed, but I was looking for suggestions to help prevent. The circumstances you describe mean that it would already be too late for some mite who would have suffered agony and possible health effects for the rest of her life.
I must confess I haven't got an answer myself, but I feel that it shouldn't be beyond the wit of better minds than mine to come up with a way of monitoring these "at risk" children.
I must confess I haven't got an answer myself, but I feel that it shouldn't be beyond the wit of better minds than mine to come up with a way of monitoring these "at risk" children.
It is a horrible, senseless practice. The answer has to be education and support for those girls facing such a procedure.Greater penalties for those practicing it over here ( although I do not know what the penalty is right now).
I appreciate that the police and prosecution services have a problem following up on these cases though- families, culture, the nature of the procedure itself means there is little clues for the authorities to act upon.
I would be more interested in knowing if girls are coming forward, but that there cases are just not being processed by the CPS....
I appreciate that the police and prosecution services have a problem following up on these cases though- families, culture, the nature of the procedure itself means there is little clues for the authorities to act upon.
I would be more interested in knowing if girls are coming forward, but that there cases are just not being processed by the CPS....
Em - Yes, if the child isn't taken abroad for the procedure then my understanding is that it's performed in a similar way to backstreet abortions used to be. i.e. there are people (usually women) within the community who perform the procedure in the home of the victim.
I can't remember the details but someone last year was arrested for such a procedure where the child had bled to death. I'll see if I can find it.
I can't remember the details but someone last year was arrested for such a procedure where the child had bled to death. I'll see if I can find it.
Sorry I was mistaken. The case I was thinking about concerned a home circumcision on a little boy who bled to death. The operation was carried out by a registered nurse who charged the parents £100 while conveniently forgetting to tell them they could have the procedure done free on the NHS. She was found guiltyof manslaughter and given a 21 month sentence. What a depressing country we live in.
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LG - Understood and of course it is the people who are at fault. What depresses me is that social services are frequently in the news for removing children from parents at the drop of a hat, but in these sort of cases they seem to be too wary of upsetting "cultural" feelings.
Personally I'm beginning to think that all female children of an ethnic origin where these practises are routinely performed should be placed on the at risk register and stuff cultural feelings. The safety of the child is paramount.
Personally I'm beginning to think that all female children of an ethnic origin where these practises are routinely performed should be placed on the at risk register and stuff cultural feelings. The safety of the child is paramount.
AOG, of course, but the only way they come to light is if the child has been severely harmed and has to go to hospital. The child could suffer with the procedure but recover sufficiently in time to not need hospital treatment, or that no one knows it had been done. There is no simple answer to this, other than though compulsive education, in schools, colleges, university
doctors and hospitals, posters with the facts on it, in the respective languages can help.
doctors and hospitals, posters with the facts on it, in the respective languages can help.
In Sweden the airports all have Matrons who are authorised by law to inspect girls who are being brought back into the country from "holidays" in Africa. They can inspect any girl they want, and must report to the authorities any evidence of mutilation. This is publicised widely, so parents know that if they bring a freshly-mutilated girl back into the country they will be discovered and they will face jail
But in this country the authorities are too namby-pamby about "culture" to do anything as robust as actually checking girls.
But in this country the authorities are too namby-pamby about "culture" to do anything as robust as actually checking girls.
