Posted on 06/07/2008 6:32:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT
The practice, also known as female circumcision, is outlawed in Norway and arouses horror among many people in the West but is a rite of passage for young women in many countries, predominantly in Africa.
The youngest of the five mutilated girls, all born in Norway, is five years old, police officials said. The others are aged seven, 10, 13 and 14 and live in Gambia, national broadcaster NRK reported.
Police officer Hanne Kristin Rohde, head of the violent crime and vice section of the Oslo police, said on Norwegian commercial television TV 2 that the father -- a naturalized Norwegian citizen along with his wife -- was taken into custody on Friday.
"Norwegian police have charged this couple of Gambian background for breaking the Norwegian law on genital mutilation -- five of their six daughters are circumcised," Rohde said.
The mother is pregnant with a seventh child and was deemed unfit to be held in jail.
Norwegian authorities have been cracking down on the practice since mid-2007, barring families from traveling abroad if they suspect they plan to have the procedure done outside the country.
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Post 2 is amusing.
Post 2 is amusing.
I’m often the life of the party here in my ward when they bring in ice cream and polka dancers on Friday evenings.
No, it says the girls had papers and schooling, it did NOT say that it was done in Norway. I’ve read that a lot of it gets done “at home”, i.e., the origin country, by family. . .
That still doesn’t make it truly legal. A nation’s reach ends at it’s border. . .
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