Still No Justice for British Girls Subjected to Female Genital Mutilation
On July - 27 - 2012
As long ago as 1932, the MP Colonel Wedgwood (direct descendent of the famous potter) spoke in parliament on the ‘horrible practice of female circumcision’ that he had seen in Kenya and questioned any acceptance of ‘their customs…their cruelties’. It’s a practice that involves the partial to complete removal of a girl’s external genitals which inevitably has a severely damaging impact on her physical, sexual and mental health. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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