Up To 100 Girls Cut in Mutilation Case, Feds Estimate – Detroit News
As many as 100 girls may have had their genitalia mutilated during a 12-year conspiracy involving three Metro Detroit doctors, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
That’s a conservative figure, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward said during a failed bid to keep two doctors jailed pending trial.
There is evidence eight girls were mutilated, the prosecutor said, but so far the nation’s first female genital mutilation case involves only two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota.
Read more here: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/06/07/feds-estimate-genital-mutilation-victims/102594478/
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