Ugandan mother jailed after becoming first convicted of FGM in UK

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England's criminal court states that female genital mutilation or FGM is a form of 'child abuse.'

The first woman in Britain to be convicted of female genital mutilation has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Imposing her prison sentence Friday at the Old Bailey, England’s central criminal court in London, judge Philippa Whipple called the convicted mother’s crime “barbaric.” The perpetrator’s ex-partner, a 43-year-old Ghanaian who was cleared of criminal involvement in February, was also handed a jail sentence for having indecent images.

In the landmark case concluded on Friday, the parents brought their bleeding daughter to hospital in Aug 2017, with the mother claiming she had fallen from a kitchen worktop onto an open door.Police found spells and curses in the mother’s home, prosecutors said during the trial.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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