1st UK prosecution for Female Genital Mutilation "imminent"

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About bloomin' time....


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/female-genital-mutilation...

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-big-...

[anonymous-user]

Agreed.

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Knob cheese? [/Inappropriate]

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The non medically indicated circumcision of infant males is a disgraceful thing, but Female Genital Mutilation GM is, I have to say, even worse than what is done to boys in the name of stupidity. Even to read about FGM can be very harrowing.

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Art0ir said:

elster said:

1985.

Wow I never knew it was so long ago.

Glad something is being done about it.

Next step male genital mutilation.

Uh.

Oooooh.

Does that mean "Yikes! cat/pigeons interface imminent", or "Yikes! I disagree"?

[anonymous-user]

Oh how I wish all threads could be like that!

[anonymous-user]

Predictable, yeah, but still mighty fine.

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TameScrapman said:

NISMOgtr said:

Rovinghawk said:

Rude-boy said:

it........... is always stilton free.

Most of us wash regularly.

Just like when everyone washes it & their hands after going to the toilets for a leak.....not.

You don't use a penis beaker?

If I start a thread in General Gassing called "Which car has the best cupholder for your penis beaker", will the Mods have me killed?

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ADM06 said:

Breadvan72 said:

If I start a thread in General Gassing called "Which car has the best cupholder for your penis beaker", will the Mods have me killed?

do it

I slightly bottled it, but check out page 4 of this thread:-


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

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If you read the cupholder thread you will see that you can't put the beaker between your thighs because the space is occupied by a Czech gymnast.

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FGM has been illegal in the UK for decades, but not one person has been prosecuted for it, so the problem is not a simple one with a simple solution of "ban it". Changing the views of those who practise this barbaric custom is the difficult thing.

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GavinPearson said:

utting the child into a foster home at birth and putting everybody who came into contact with the kid on remand until they go to court will weed people out.

If the people who practice this barbaric act don't like it, that's just tough luck for them. It's time to actually make a stand on principle about something going on within the British Isles who's perpetuation isn't able to be blamed on anybody else but the British legal and Policing system.

That view is over simplistic. This practice is hidden, and the victims do not always speak out, because of familial and cultural pressures. See also victims of child sex abuse. A prosecutor needs people willing to give evidence in order to secure a conviction.

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Mr_B said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26681364

Prosecuting a doctor for repairing earlier FGM? Query whether the allegation involves covering up the previous offence and not reporting the parents to the police. We shall have to wait and see.

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My hunch is that the allegation may be something along these lines: The non doctor defendant persuaded the doctor defendant to repair an earlier mutilation, but to do so on the quiet without contacting police and social services. NB: this is mere supposition and the defendants are entitled to be presumed innocent.

[anonymous-user]

So do I.

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Yes, that may also be a possibility. We know that doctors have been complicit in torture and other atrocities in various places, and sadly it is possible that some doctors in the UK are complicit in FGM. I stress that the present doctor defendant may be innocent - we don't know yet.

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Consent must of course be informed and real, and there are reported cases of adult women being culturally pressured to "consent" to FGM. Of course, no child of any age can possibly consent to FGM, just as no child of any age can consent to sex with an adult.

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You can, if Parliament says so.

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It appears that the CPS chose a pretty hopeless case for the first prosecution. The jury took only 30 minutes to acquit. Great work, CPS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31138218

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It is in principle wrong for any child to undergo a surgical procedure that is not medically advised, but having said that FGM is orders of magnitude worse than non medical male circumcision. FGM is more physically damaging, very much more in its worst forms (there are no good forms, only bad and worse), and it is also used as an instrument in the systematic subjection of women by some societies. I would support a ban on non medical circumcision of boys, but that is a much lower priority than ending FGM.