Posted on 07/21/2016 1:24:21 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
There were 5,700 new cases of female genital mutilation recorded in England in 2015-16, the first annual statistics show.
The figures, published on Thursday by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and covering the period of April 2015 to March 2016, show that in 18 cases the practice had been undertaken in the UK.
The age group for which FGM was most common was five- to nine-year-olds, accounting for 43% of the total number of cases where the age at the time of being cut was known.
In all there were 8,660 attendances where FGM was identified or a medical procedure for the practice was undertaken, according to the statistics, the first to be published since the government introduced compulsory reporting for NHS trusts and GP surgeries.
The Royal College of Nursing said more had to be done to end the practice, which has been illegal in the UK since 1985.
Carmel Bagness, the RCN’s professional lead for midwifery and women’s health, said: “Collecting and publishing these statistics is an important part of the fight against FGM. They can be used to better plan local services to meet the needs of women and girls, and to target training for nurses and midwives.
In the footsteps of their mothers: Bristol youth march against FGM Read more “What these statistics show is that there is still a lot of work to do to eradicate this abuse. A lot has been achieved in the past few years, but these efforts must continue for as long as there are still women and girls subjected to this criminal abuse.”
The vast majority (87%) of women whose pregnancy status was known were pregnant at the time of attendance, suggesting that this was what led to FGM being self-reported or identified by a medical professional. Self-reporting accounted for 73% of FGM identification, where the identification method was known.
Women and girls born in Somalia accounted for 37% of all newly recorded cases of FGM with a known country of birth. Of the women and girls with a known country of birth, 90% were born in Africa. Of the total number of newly recorded cases, 43 involved women and girls who said they had been born in the UK.
More than half of all cases – 52% of newly recorded cases and 58% of total attendances – related to women and girls from the London NHS commissioning region.
A national campaign by the Guardian, the Bristol-based charity Integrate and Change.org led to compulsory training for public sector workers to help teachers, doctors and social workers identify and assist girls at risk. The Department for Education has written to schools about the dangers of FGM.
More than 20,000 girls a year are thought to be at risk of FGM in the UK. Medical groups, trade unions and human rights organisations estimate that there are 66,000 victims of the practice in England and Wales.
Try ending Moslem immigration, deporting rabble rousers and those who don't yet have citizenship, and stop defending Sharia Law. When even the PM herself defends the indefensible, progress in this and all other matters related to Islamization is impossible.
Obama ,Merkel and Soros sorry the number isn’t any higher.
A Prime Minister's answer to 5,700 cases of child abuse and female barbarity to appease Sharia Law?:
"SUBMIT!!"
So much for the myth of "Womens' Rights," "Black Lives Matter," and "Religion of Peace" championed by the hypocritical, self-loathing Progressive Marxist-Left and Globalists. Bloody Totalitarianism "by whatever mean necessary" (Islam is this case) is their Cult.
Just what do moozlums have against clitori? Our “leaders” tell us they are all-loving. Wouldn’t that mean that they love clitori???
I used to think Pakistan was the @$$hole of the world, but now I’m hedging my bets with Somalia.
I don’t believe FGM is a requirement of Islam. It is a tribal custom of peoples from a number of places, mostly Africa. It does fit in well with Islam’s general misogyny and attitudes towards women (the overarching importance of female virginity, and that women really only exist for the benefit of men), however.
Regardless, IMO it’s another good example of why importing people from the backwards third world to our countries is a bad idea. These people have beliefs and practices that are completely incompatible with our culture. Of course multi-culturalists undoubtedly think that people with practices like FGM are adding to our “diversity”, and it’s a wonderful thing.
The “5,700 cases of recorded FGM” presumably does not include sex-change (gender reassignment) surgery, which is also genital mutilation.
In fact this “transition” surgery is even more radically destructive than your typical North African FGM, because its not only deforming, but also maiming. FGM significantly impairs sexual/reproductive function; sexual “reassignment” surgery destroys it.
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