{"id":26421,"date":"2023-10-26T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26421"},"modified":"2023-10-26T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:16:51","slug":"fgm-woman-guilty-of-taking-child-to-kenya-for-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/10\/26\/fgm-woman-guilty-of-taking-child-to-kenya-for-mutilation\/","title":{"rendered":"FGM: Woman guilty of taking child to Kenya for mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman has been found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM).<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Amina Noor, 39, is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Noor, from Harrow in north-west London, took the child to a private house for the procedure in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She had told the Old Bailey the mutilation is done for cultural reasons and was a procedure she herself had undergone as a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Noor, who was born in Somalia but has British citizenship, will be sentenced on 20 December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was only in 2015 that the girl – who is now aged 21 and who cannot be identified – confided to a schoolteacher that she had suffered FGM and police were informed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Following an examination at University College Hospital in 2019 it was found that the girl’s clitoris had been completely removed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Giving evidence at her trial, Noor claimed she had come under cultural pressure to have the procedure performed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Noor told her trial that she and another woman had taken the child in a tuk-tuk vehicle and she had been told to wait outside a house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She claimed that she had only expected the girl’s genitals to be “touched” in a way that would cause them to bleed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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However, the prosecution said the jury could be sure the defendant knew that an act of FGM was to be performed – whether or not that was the removal of the girl’s clitoris or some form of physical injury for which there was no medical purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC said Noor had repeatedly denied to police that she had been threatened to force her to agree to the procedure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“She was asked three times if she had been threatened and three times she said there were no threats,” Ms Heer said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But in her defence Noor claimed she feared being “disowned and cursed” by the community if she did not hand over the girl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The prosecution also drew attention to the defendant’s behaviour at the time the FGM was carried out – for example, she had not asked whether the people involved were doctors or insisted on being present for the procedure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FGM is a practice that is very widespread among the Somali community in East Africa, the court heard, with United Nations figures suggesting that 94% of women of Somali origin living in Kenya have undergone the procedure.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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