Australian Judge Sentences Women for Mutilating Daughters

LONDON - A mother and midwife who subjected two young girls to female genital mutilation in Australia were sentenced to 15 months each on Friday following a landmark FGM trial.

The mother of four, who cannot be named for legal reasons, asked nurse Kubra Magennis to carry out the secret ritual on her two older daughters. Both are members of the Dawoodi Bohra community, a worldwide subsect of Shi'ite Islam. Shabbir Vaziri, a Dawoodi Bohra religious leader, was also sentenced to 15 months for trying to cover up the offences

The girls were cut when they were about seven years old and afterwards sworn to secrecy, according to the judgment by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. The older girl was cut at a relative's home in Wollongong and the younger at the family home in Sydney. Their grandmother was also present at the ceremonies carried out between 2009 and 2012. Read it all here at Asia One...............

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