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Suffer the Little Girls
Townhall.com ^ | April 20, 2019 | Elizabeth Yore

Posted on 04/20/2019 9:30:37 AM PDT by Kaslin

Prosecutions of crimes and appeals are the hallmark of a vibrant criminal justice system that provides justice for victims and ensures community safety and societal order. Children and adults are entitled to the protection of the criminal justice system. A society breaks down when crimes are not investigated, prosecuted or convicted. Just ask the Brits. Until recently, they couldn’t get a conviction for female genital mutilation in a country where FGM doubled in one year. For 30 years, this British national scandal lingered as the numbers of FGM victims grew yearly.

This month, headlines were dominated by the U.S. Department of Justice's release of the Mueller Report, the arrest of Julian Assange, the indictment of Obama lawyer Greg Craig and the investigation into spying in the Trump campaign. Clearly, the Department of Justice is inundated with the legal political machinations of politics and its operatives.

Yet, vulnerable children are at risk; this seldom makes headlines. When DOJ resources are stretched thin, children suffer. So the recent news that the DOJ was dropping its appeal of Michigan Judge Bernard Friedman’s ruling, which found that the federal female genital mutilation statute was unconstitutional, stung child advocates. In the Solicitor General’s letter to Congress dismissing the government appeal, Noel John Francisco rightly described the crime of female genital mutilation as “an especially heinous practice—permanently mutilating young girls—that should be universally condemned.”

The Department of Justice determined that the statutory language of the FGM federal lawsuit needs to be amended, consistent with Judge Friedman’s ruling. Thus, the government did not pursue the appeal of the district court’s decision. So it’s back to square one for the vulnerable 513,000 women and girls at risk for FGM in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control. The risk of FGM is especially high in 19 states that have no criminal FGM statute on the books. No federal statute and 19 states without a law hearkens back to third-world countries, like Somalia and Sudan.

Today, in the era of gender-based violence and the #MeToo movement, FGM, one of the most brutal gender-based acts of violence against little girls, remains protected in 19 states and in federal law in the United States.

We must urge our senators and representatives to move quickly to pass legislation criminalizing female genital mutilation. This is rapidly becoming a national scandal that the greatest country in the world can’t protect little girls from the barbarism of female genital mutilation.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
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1 posted on 04/20/2019 9:30:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why not leave it to the states to pass such legislation. The Constitution does not authorize the Federal government to pass such legislation.


2 posted on 04/20/2019 9:37:18 AM PDT by rcofdayton
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To: Kaslin

Sharia law creeks in the back door, first they need to criminalize speech against all Muslims as islamaphobia and racist which the have, then these barbaric laws of islam will slowly replace the laws of the land. The criminal justice system in this country is already under attack by the left for being old outdated unfair and criminal in its own right. They will need something to sell and replace it.......sharia


3 posted on 04/20/2019 9:39:02 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Kaslin
There can't be anything much worse then being a moslem female.
4 posted on 04/20/2019 9:40:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Barr:The Bill Belichick of Attorneys General)
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To: Gay State Conservative

There can’t be any future much worse then that of being a moslem female.


5 posted on 04/20/2019 9:46:19 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Kaslin

I thought this was going to be another thread about Biden


6 posted on 04/20/2019 9:58:55 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Kaslin

As much as I want to sympathize, I’ve come to the conclusion that Muslim women are just as hateful and poisonous as Muslim men, so... whatever. As long as they aren’t trying it on non-Muslims. (Of course, I know that’s the next step, but laws against FGM won’t stop it, only getting Islam out of the country will stop it.)


7 posted on 04/20/2019 10:57:25 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady ( Political correctness forbids discussing any negative outcomes of Left-wing ideology. -PMcL)
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To: Kaslin

“A society breaks down when crimes are not investigated, prosecuted or convicted.”

It’s really a good thing infanticide isn’t a crime or we would be in deep dodo.


8 posted on 04/20/2019 12:07:36 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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... that have no criminal FGM statute on the books.

If CHOICE can kill the unborn in the womb; then surely a mere FGM is gonna be found permissible in another penumbra somewhere!

9 posted on 04/20/2019 5:35:14 PM PDT by Elsie
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