First Ever UK Woman Convicted of Female Genital Mutilation Jailed For 11 Years – IOTW Report

First Ever UK Woman Convicted of Female Genital Mutilation Jailed For 11 Years

Breitbart:

A Ugandan origin woman living in Britain has been jailed for 11 years after her conviction under Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) laws.

The 37-year-old woman became only the first person to be convicted under the UK’s anti-FGM laws in February, despite the nation seeing tens of thousands of cases of this kind of abuse, and the laws having been on the statute books for 34 years.

The sentence passed at the Old Bailey central criminal court in London Friday was of 11 years, however under the British penal system, the time actually served behind bars is typically significantly less.

Britain’s BBC state media network reported from the court comments of the judge who said the mutilation, which the perpetrator had originally claimed had been caused by the child falling while reaching for a biscuit, was a “barbaric and sickening crime.”

3 Comments on First Ever UK Woman Convicted of Female Genital Mutilation Jailed For 11 Years

  1. I’d prefer the “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” approach. In this case that would be “a clitoris for a clitoris, a labium for a labium”.

    Oh. Wait. That nasty Ugandan has probably already lost hers.

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