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by Soeren Kern • March 11, 2019
at 5:00 am
- There is "a lot
of anecdotal data" which shows that female genital
mutilation (FGM) is increasingly being performed on babies and
infants in the UK, according to FGM expert and attorney Dr.
Charlotte Proudman. She added that it was "almost
impossible to detect" as the girls were not yet in school
or at nursery, thus making it difficult for any public
authority to become aware of it. Proudman added that the lack
of prosecutions for FGM is due in part to concerns by doctors
and police over being accused of racism.
- Oluwole Ilesanmi, a
64-year-old Christian street preacher also known as Preacher
Olu, was arrested at Southgate Station in north London after
complaints that his message about Jesus was
"Islamophobic."
- Education Secretary
Damian Hinds announced a plan to make anti-FGM lessons
compulsory in British schools. As of September 2020, all
teenagers in secondary school will be taught about the illegal
practice, which may affect up to 60,000 girls in the UK.
"I want to make sure there isn't another generation of
children at risk of this happening," Hinds said.
Pictured:
A UK Border Force boat patrols Dover Harbour on December 29, 2018.
The growing number of migrants illegally attempting to cross the
English Channel was declared a "major incident" by UK
Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who called in the Royal Navy to help
deal with the migrant crisis in the Channel. (Photo by Christopher
Furlong/Getty Images)
February 1. A 37-year-old Ugandan mother-of-three
became the first person to be found guilty of female genital
mutilation (FGM) in Britain, where FGM has been a criminal offense
since 1985. The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, known
as the Old Bailey, heard how the woman performed FGM on her
three-year-old girl. The woman claimed the girl "fell on metal
and it ripped her private parts" after she had climbed to get
a biscuit. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry QC told the court that
investigators found evidence in the woman's home in East London of
spells and curses apparently aimed at "silencing" police
officers, social workers and lawyers:
"Two cow tongues were bound in wire with nails
and a small blunt knife also embedded in them, 40 limes were found
and other fruit which when opened contained pieces of paper with
names on them.
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