Amina Noor, a 40-year-old British woman, was sentenced Friday for placing a little girl in the hands of a woman who circumcised her during a trip to Kenya. An unprecedented conviction in the country.
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With our correspondent in London, Sidonie Gaucher
“ It took a lot of courage for the victim to put together her case and denounce such facts. “, declared the judge, pronouncing the seven-year prison sentence against Amina Noor, found guilty last October by a popular jury of having contributed to the mutilation of a three-year-old girl. female geniuses (FGM).
In 2006, the Londoner of Somali origin, who was then 22, took a three-year-old girl to a so-called “ clinical ” At Kenya to undergo genital mutilation.
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Threat
During the investigation, she appeared ” shocked »to learn what the little girl had suffered before admitting to having been threatened with being “ cursed ” And ” disowned » by her community if she did not take part in the excision of the little girl.
In 2019, a Ugandan woman living in east London was already sentenced to eleven years in prison for having herself circumcised a three-year-old girl.
With this conviction, Amina Noor becomes the first person of British nationality convicted of helping to carry out excision abroad, under a 2003 law on genital mutilation which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
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