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UK: Cops save 45 girls from tribal abuse (Genital mutilation; no prosecutions, 6500 'at risk')
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | July 31, 2008 | ANTHONY FRANCE

Posted on 07/31/2008 9:48:56 AM PDT by Stoat

Cops save 45 girls from tribal abuse

By ANTHONY FRANCE
Crime Reporter

 
 

COPS rescued 45 British girls from horrific African tribal abuse in the past year, it has been revealed.

Kids as young as four have had their genitals sewn up because parents believe it will protect their virginity until marriage.

The practice is popular in many African countries but banned in the UK. Scotland Yard believes that 6,500 girls in London are at risk.

Ages of victims rescued range from a few days old to 16.

The total saved by the Met’s Project Azure is up ELEVEN-FOLD on 2007.

Police received tip-offs that they were due to be sent abroad or have grisly ops in backstreet clinics.

The mutilation is usually carried out when girls are between four and six. The horrific procedure is done without consent and sometimes with no anaesthetic.

During the summer holidays, girls are duped out of Britain to attend “a special ceremony”.

Anyone caught arranging female genital mutilation here faces a maximum 14-year prison term. Two million girls around the world suffer the ordeal each year.

One victim – Hoda, 30, of London – was mutilated in Somalia when she was six.

She told The Sun: “Parents have it done as they want their daughters to stay virgins until they are married. But I will live with the pain for the rest of my life.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “This is child abuse in one of its most severe forms.”

Crime writer Ruth Rendell today joins Project Azure to highlight the issue.

 

Anyone who believes a child may be in danger should call Project Azure’s hotline on 020 7161 2888.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: africa; african; britain; england; genitalmutilation; greatbritain; mutilation; tribal; triblal; uk; unitedkingdom
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No prosecutions yet over female circumcision - Worthing Today

No prosecutions yet over female circumcision

 
 
No-one responsible for the practice of female circumcision has ever been prosecuted in the UK, police in London have admitted.
A total of 45 girls aged between five months and 16 years have been saved from the brutal act by specialist officers since March last year.

A reward of £20,000 was offered to bring the first person in the UK to justice for the barbaric ritual one

year ago.

But senior officers said it has been impossible to put anyone in the dock despite new legislation outlawing those who undertake the procedure and arrange it.

Det Supt Caroline Bates, of the Met's child abuse investigation command, said: "We have been unable to prosecute anybody.

"We have had a considerable increase in the number of pieces of information about particular children.

"The awareness raising has been good and we have had intelligence and some operations where we have followed up with surveillance, but we have been unable to identify anybody that we can hold criminally responsible.

"Some of that comes down to the fact that we can't age the injuries. The child had been mutilated, but we can't confirm if it was prior or post the legislation."

The Metropolitan Police set up Project Azure to tackle the growing problem of female genital mutilation.

It is feared up to 6,500 girls in London are at risk of to the tradition that can be traced back to many African nations.


1 posted on 07/31/2008 9:48:57 AM PDT by Stoat
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To: All
More about Project Azure

Metropolitan Police Service - Specialist Crime Directorate

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One naturally wonders how prevalent this barbarity is here in the United States....with the large number of African immigrants, it has to be significant here as well.

2 posted on 07/31/2008 9:49:23 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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notice how the RELIGION of these barbarians is not mentioned???? O, I wonder what it could be.....


3 posted on 07/31/2008 9:57:39 AM PDT by JG52blackman
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To: JG52blackman
And the NO BALLS UN says the British should be nicer to foreigners! Go tell the UN to F&*% itself!
4 posted on 07/31/2008 10:02:09 AM PDT by Devilinbaggypants (He who wishes to give little shouldn't ask for much.)
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To: Stoat

I suppose Lefties would consider this social progress? These barbarians cannot be assimilated. Sooner or later there will be a showdown of cultures.


5 posted on 07/31/2008 10:04:44 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Stop the Obamanation!))))
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notice how the RELIGION of these barbarians is not mentioned???? O, I wonder what it could be.....

Indeed.  And when the Left endlessly criticizes Christian missionaries for "destroying the great, proud and ancient culture of Africa" , I assume that they are also objecting to this sort of barbarity being stopped.  If not, why not?  We are always told about how much incredible wisdom African tribal culture can teach us, if we would only stop our imperialist onslaught and listen to the tribal elders......

6 posted on 07/31/2008 10:06:58 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Celebrate Diversity!


7 posted on 07/31/2008 10:09:58 AM PDT by Wil H
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To: Stoat

How many prosecutions over male circumcision?


8 posted on 07/31/2008 10:12:58 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Stoat

As I read stories like this I understand the old violent stories in the Old Testament more and more.

When I first read them, as a child, I couldn’t understand why God could command the Israelites to wipe out whole cultures. But now I look at the invasion of barbaristic actions we suffer now with our compassionate ways, and I start to have some understanding of just how good cultures can be totally destroyed and corrupted because they were too “compassionate” - or selfish.

I guess I’m just too Politically incorrect to even be talking about good and bad cultures.


9 posted on 07/31/2008 10:15:04 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: JG52blackman

Hum...Islam?


10 posted on 07/31/2008 10:15:55 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51 ("...If it moves, tax it, if it moves faster, regulate it, if it stops, subsidies it.")
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To: swain_forkbeard
How many prosecutions over male circumcision?

South Africa Boy dies at circumcision school

South Africa Eastern Cape circumcision death toll rises to 22

I see occasional stories on this happening in Africa, but I haven't seen similar stories from the UK or the USA.  I would imagine that it's similarly prevalent among African immigrants.

11 posted on 07/31/2008 10:28:13 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

“Diversity is our strength. All cultures are equal.”

/barf


12 posted on 07/31/2008 11:34:12 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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We have Great Dane, Pit Bull, Greyhound, etc Rescues formed to save these animals. Maybe we can set up some type of Muslim Woman Rescue for those that dont want to be cut, killed or beaten in the name of Family Honor?
13 posted on 07/31/2008 11:44:40 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: Stoat

In the US and UK it’s simple and inexpensive to get a boy circumsized properly by a medical professional, mainly because it doesn’t involve sewing the kid’s wotsit to his rear entrance. No ethical doctor would perform a female circumsision.


14 posted on 07/31/2008 12:34:56 PM PDT by Eepsy (12-30-2008 +1)
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To: Eepsy

Would an African immigrant, steeped in tribal ritual as well as Islam view a “Western circumcision” as addressing whatever traditions or rituals are intended? Or would this be regarded as “blasphemous” and unacceptable to someone who is accustomed to and expects a ritualistic barbarity?


15 posted on 07/31/2008 12:44:35 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Sooner or later there will be a showdown of cultures.

Historically, the more decadent, undisciplined, narcissistic culture is conquered by the more disciplined culture with defined moral values (whatever those values might be).

This doesn't look good for us.

16 posted on 07/31/2008 12:47:44 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Sooner or later there will be a showdown of cultures”.

Let me guess who will wave the white flag first..


17 posted on 07/31/2008 12:48:40 PM PDT by alarm rider (Peace! through superior fire power....)
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To: I still care

Not only entire cultures, but all of their beasts as well.

Makes you wonder what the beasts did - or what was done to them.


18 posted on 07/31/2008 12:48:53 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Travis McGee
“Diversity is our strength. All cultures are equal.”

That's not (PC) true! Christianity, as we all know, is to be shunned and forcibly removed from public view!

19 posted on 07/31/2008 12:49:46 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: ßuddaßudd
We have Great Dane, Pit Bull, Greyhound, etc Rescues formed to save these animals. Maybe we can set up some type of Muslim Woman Rescue for those that dont want to be cut, killed or beaten in the name of Family Honor?
 

I've heard of this as being available in the UK, but there have been a lot of problems with it being effective because the father invariably complains that the daughter is just making up stories and is a runaway.  In order for the rescue to be effective, there needs to be some evidence for the law to be able to step in, and in these cases quite often the only evidence comes far too late in the form of the dead girl's body

20 posted on 07/31/2008 1:01:15 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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