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Originally Posted by jaxie
Unfortunately British girls are taken out of this country to have FGM and then returned. And yet there has never been one prosecution.
'Fifty girls' taken from UK to Somalia for FGM
FGM is banned but very much alive in the UK
"It's a custom that is very much alive, not just in home countries but in Scotland," says Anela Anwar, from the Glasgow-based charity Roshni. "People have given us information saying girls are being cut in Scotland or we hear that girls are taken back home to be cut over the summer holidays."
FGM has been illegal in the UK since 1985, and since 2003 anyone taking a child out of the UK to be cut faces 14 years in prison. However, there has yet to be a single conviction. Two people were arrested in November accused of carrying out FGM on a five-week-old baby but, according to the Metropolitan police, there was "insufficient evidence to proceed". |
How do they prove this though is the question? unless the girl reports it and actually shows them which is probably unlikely