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A federal prosecutor said Wednesday that the government estimates as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a local Michigan doctor and her cohorts.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward disclosed the information while trying to convince a a federal judge to keep a doctor and his wife locked up in the historic case. It involves allegations that two Minnesota girls had their genitals cut at a Livonia clinic in February as part of a religious rite of passage and were told to keep what happened a secret.
"Due to the secretive nature of this procedure, we are unlikely to ever know how many children were cut by Dr. (Jumana) Nagarwala," Woodward said, referring to the lead defendant in the case, later adding, "The Minnesota victims were not the first victims."
Against Woodward's wishes, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman granted bond to two other defendants in the case: Fakhruddin Attar, 53, of Farmington Hills, who is accused of letting Nagarwala use his clinic to perform genital cutting procedures on minor girls; and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, who is accused of holding the girls' hands during the procedure to keep them from squirming and to calm them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/07/feds-up-100-girls-may-victims-genital-cutting-case/379356001/
Towlie
(5,324 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)ThoughtProvoker
(32 posts)This make me so mad. We need to stop this B.S., and stop it now. This is severely harming the futures of these girls.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)were perpetrated by John and Jane Stranger, the adults would never see the light of day again.
And everyone would be properly horrified.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)No doubt my post would be hidden if I named the one that did this.
Persisted
(290 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)They pretend they don't and try and deflect but they know. Their souls die a little bit every time they turn away from it.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Yes, they do.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)If they had committed a "real" crime, like growing pot plants for cancer patients, no way would they get out on bond.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)and his rancid wife that held these girls down need to die in jail.
bdamomma
(63,877 posts)we are living in a third world
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)if that were the case. These disgusting people will be made an example of.