Girl Dies From FGM; Judge’s Sentence: Suspended Jail Terms
An Egyptian family took their twin 17-year-old girls to a public hospital in Suez – yes, a governmental hospital and not a butcher’s shop – where a doctor, anesthesiologist and nurse opened their legs, examined their genitalia and began cutting. Mercilessly. The two girls were screaming, one after the other in the same room.
The anti-female genital mutilation law in Egypt law stipulates that genital cutting is a crime against an individual’s honor. However, in Egypt, the reality is very different from the letter of the law.
FGM causes permanent damage to the body from which it is impossible to heal. In addition to all the other horrific side effects, cutting destroys the girl’s sexual appetite, which is her legitimate right to have.
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