For the first time a Danish woman has been found guilty of having two daughters mutilated.
The woman, who comes originally from Africa, also planned a trip to Sudan to mutilate another daughter who is 5 years old. She was sentenced to two years in jail, but freed, as she had already been imprisoned for four month. Since 2003 FGM is punishable by up to six years in jail in Denmark. The father of the girls pretended not to know about anything and was acquitted.
According to the French National Institute of Demographic Research about 100 to 140 million girls and women all over the world have been mutilated, among them 6,5 million in Western countries, and suffer from the risk of death through bleeding, infections, urinary tract problems, mental traumas or later compilations during childbirth.
