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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the cultural, and sometimes religious, practice of cutting young girls – often with the goal of restricting their…
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Two Detroit-area women have been charged with allowing their daughters to undergo genital mutilation as federal authorities expand their case against…
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The Michigan House passed a series of bills that increase the punishment for doctors and parents involved in female genital mutilation.The bills, which…
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A fourth person has been charged in the case of alleged genital mutilation of girls by members of a Muslim sect.Tajera Shafiq was arraigned Wednesday in…
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A federal prosecutor recently revealed as many as 100 girls in Michigan may have been victims of female genital mutilation. Now the state legislature is…
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A federal prosecutor claimed Wednesday that government officials estimate that as many as 100 girls could possibly be victims of a Detroit-area doctor…
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State lawmakers are quickly pushing through legislation to make female genital mutilation a state crime. About two weeks ago a Senate committee passed…
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A Michigan doctor at the center of a female genital mutilation case could lose parental rights of her children.Doctor Jumana Nagarwala and two other…
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A lawyer says Michigan's child welfare agency is moving to terminate parental rights in at least two Detroit-area families in an investigation of female…
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Prosecutors say the case against Dr. Jumana Nagarwala is the first of its kind under a federal law – even though that law is more than 20 years…