AIBU to wonder why FGM is effectively legal?

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www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/21/england-fgm-cases-recorded-2015-2016

5700 cases of Female Genital Mutilation the 2015–16.

43% took place between the ages of 5 and 9.

Not a single arrest, prosecution or conviction.

If a child aged 5 to 9 is a victim of genital mutilation, the parents are probably at fault, and should certainly be interviewed under caution with a view to prosecution. Crap about "multiculturalism" or "who are we to judge" are just saying that non-white children deserve lesser, and fewer, rights than white children.

Instead, we have a policy, enacted by doctors, nurses and social workers, of not pursuing such cases out of a completely misguided sense of "oh noes, we might be waycist".

There was a film on the Community Channel showing a girl having her clitoris sliced off with a razor.

No anasthetic.

No painkillers.

She was traumatised. Her mother took her to the place and back.

Also sometimes the labia are cut and sewn together so that there is only one small hole for menstrual blood. I think it is opened up before they get married.

About 1% of the population of my London borough is Somali which is quite a lot.

Abroad if you can get the men not to want the women who have been subjected to FGM (eg help them prize a wife who went to university and who will enjoy sex which tends to make sex better for men etc etc) then that tends to help stamp out the practice abroad.

FGM is not legal, agencies in the uk do not turn a blind eye or make excuses for it

There have been several thousand successful prosecutions in France for this crime compared to none here. As a result it has diminished in France, though not entirely, sadly. What is this but proof of the timidity of the UK legal system in regards to imposing the law on everyone, equally?

Could preventing travel to the countries identified from high risk group be an option.

So they can go to Europiean countries but not for example Somalia.

Eve
How on earth would you control that?
What is to stop someone flying on to Somalia from France?
What do you do when a family member dies/gets married/gets a new job and wants to move back home?

EveOnline2016 Apparently this country is one where girls as young as five are being sent from other EU countries for FGM performed on them. I don't think they need to go all the way to Somalia or Egypt.

www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/10/france-tough-stance-female-genital-mutilation-fgm

If a family with a daughter turn up tomorrow at the airport with passports, visas and tickets all in order to fly to Somalia or any other country where this practice is prevalent nobody can stop them going. This is not East Germany before the Wall where people were pulled off trains headed to East Berlin on suspicion that they might cross to the West.

The law should be applied equally to all regardless of "sensitivities". FGM is abuse of the nastiest kind, until the courts address it with full vigour - children will be mutilated.

I agree 100% bkgirl. But it isn't, it's being covered up/ignored by local authorities, the Police, media etc.. Because they're not racists y'know?