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its truly appalling, and these are the ones they know about, and only in the capital, so how many more across the country. how on earth can a parent allow this to happen to their child.
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'..At least 66,000 girls and women in the UK are believed to be victims of FGM...' Good grief. Awful, just awful. How could anyone do that to someone
18:13 Wed 19th Mar 2014
no idea, but i suspect there would be, after all it's not hard to imagine that the parents can find a person to do it, if you can find them to abort a girl child, all you need is money. And if they take the child out the country, then the problem is the medical people here are having to pick up the pieces.
as explained it doesn't have to be a doctor.
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Short answer is that nobody knows how many are carried out in the UK. because we have precious little data to go on. Hospitals have not been obliged to document and report instances of FGM, although the practice has been illegal since 1980s so quite why it was not mandatory to document and record such cases before now I don't know.
The only figures we do have are based upon the returns from a small number of hospitals, mostly situated in London, and it is from these figures that the overall figures for the incidence to be extrapolated and guessed at.
I thought it interesting that, of the 4,000 or so cases recorded, only 8 were actually born in the UK; This seems to be very much a problem with new immigrant communities, although that perception might change as more figures come in ,and suggests that those offering to perform FGM are situated abroad for the most part, rather than being based in the UK.
As to medical professionals over here "getting their fingers out" and reporting more cases - they can only report the cases they see, and most often they present later, during pregnancy etc. I do not suppose GPs for instance, make a habit of inspecting the genitalia of young girls unless there is a pressing clinical need to do so; nor should we want them to.
As with all things, education remains the key factor in changing the cultural perception of FGM and rendering it obsolete ; Education within the communities and education of those girls at risk.
The only figures we do have are based upon the returns from a small number of hospitals, mostly situated in London, and it is from these figures that the overall figures for the incidence to be extrapolated and guessed at.
I thought it interesting that, of the 4,000 or so cases recorded, only 8 were actually born in the UK; This seems to be very much a problem with new immigrant communities, although that perception might change as more figures come in ,and suggests that those offering to perform FGM are situated abroad for the most part, rather than being based in the UK.
As to medical professionals over here "getting their fingers out" and reporting more cases - they can only report the cases they see, and most often they present later, during pregnancy etc. I do not suppose GPs for instance, make a habit of inspecting the genitalia of young girls unless there is a pressing clinical need to do so; nor should we want them to.
As with all things, education remains the key factor in changing the cultural perception of FGM and rendering it obsolete ; Education within the communities and education of those girls at risk.
it should be highlighted in hospitals, in schools, doctors surgeries, posters on the dangers and illegality of this reprehensible practice, and talks given by those it has happened to, on the dangers, same as though do with drug and drink abuse. Of course it's difficult if they have it done overseas, but the fallout will come back to the UK, as those figures seem to show.
@DN The only way that you address any such "atrocity" is through education, and that takes time. You can take steps to legislate, to report, to criminalise, but in cases like this they are not of themselves going to solve the problem.
Education is the key.
Do you think the mothers/aunts/older sisters that sanction and organise such practices are deliberately cruel to their daughters when they take them to have this procedure done?
Education is the key.
Do you think the mothers/aunts/older sisters that sanction and organise such practices are deliberately cruel to their daughters when they take them to have this procedure done?
