Feds: Moms, charged in genital cutting case, gave doctor blessing to cut daughters – USA Today

Five months after a historic genital mutilation case surfaced in Detroit, two Minnesota mothers were charged Thursday with subjecting their 8-year-old daughters to genital cutting procedures at a  Michigan clinic.

According to court documents, the mothers drove the girls to metro Detroit in February — tricking them into thinking they were going on a special girls weekend — and then drove them to a medical clinic and gave a doctor their blessings to cut the girls.

Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/15/moms-charged-michigan-genital-mutilation-case/669206001/