I realize this is a side issue, but can someone explain how a mother didn't notice this about her two year old for TWO YEARS?
Toward the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century the practice was actually advertised and performed.
Anyway, don't try it ~ 40 years!
Amazing isn't it. N.O.W. selectively chooses which causes they think are "worthy" of their activism. If ever there were an outrage for N.O.W. this would be it--yet they are absent.
Yes, strangely silent, aren't they? *Cue crickets.* Revolting. These champions of feminism should be swarming the little girl and mother with legal and other aid, should be on CNN decrying this mutiliation and vowing to end it. But I won't hold my breath.
And - dear God, it's happening here now.
which the mother said she did not discover until two years later when she took her daughter to the doctor. -snip- Before the sentencing, Fortunate Adem, the mother of the girl who now is seven years old, pleaded for the maximum sentence.
I'm not sure, considering the little girl was only 2 and would have needed supervision for baths and bathroom, how the mother didn't know, but thankfully she acted when she found out. That's a privelege that women in some other countries wouldn't have.
I looked into this case the other day. I researched it in a few places and found that usually it is the women of the tribe or family that do this. I have however heard of barbers doing it the USA. heres some links that can make you cry.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/
http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/inter/fgm.htm
(The legs of the little girl are tied together for several weeks until the wound heals; a tiny opening is created by inserting a splinter of wood - to allow urination. Thus virginity - which is considered especially important by Moslem men - can be proven before the bride price is paid to the father) this one made me cry to think of the pain these little girls suffer.
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_genitalmutilation.html
petition link to sign
http://www.petitiononline.com/fgm2003/petition.html
I do find it very odd the mother didn't notice it right away as the child would have been bleeding and suffering. Maybe she was afraid of her husband, I don't know. Whoever did this ought to rot in jail for a very long time.
I'm not convinced this guy is guilty.
His *ex-wife* now claims she knew nothing?
Never noticed when she changed the girl's diaper. Hard to believe.
It is the women who usually do the circumcisions, not the men. And this ex-wife's mother is a nurse. hmmm...