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Female genital mutilation ‘offered by UK medics’

GP, dentist and alternative medicine practitioner are filmed allegedly offering to carry out or arrange FGM.

[The Guardian, As many as 100,000 women in Britain have undergone female genital mutilations (FGM) with medics in the UK offering to carry out the illegal procedure on girls as young as 10, it has been reported.

Investigators from the Sunday Times said they had secretly filmed a doctor, dentist and alternative medicine practitioner who were allegedly willing to perform FGM or arrange for the operation to be carried out. The doctor and dentist deny any wrongdoing.

[PIC] Waris Dirie, a model who campaigns against FGM, said: ‘If a white girl is abused, police break down the door. If a black girl is mutilated, no one takes care of her.’ Photograph: Joerg Carstensen/EPA Continue lendo