FGM During Labor

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This happened in 2017.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/fgm-childbirth-kenya/1056-5285292-7srvi0z/index.html

[Nefertiti]

I hope the midwife and husband are behind bars. Ignorance is not a defense.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

I hope the midwife and husband are behind bars. Ignorance is not a defense.

Same here.  It's not possible to even try and understand where they are coming from.  Not in 2017.

[Dear Mami]

Oy! A German woman asked me about FGM yesterday. This is one of those things that tempts me to disown my Africanness. What a disgrace. Robina, this is the stuff that should inform you that Africans are largely from 3,000 years ago, Bazungu time. I feel sorry for the hubby, but I'd still jail his behind. Not because I don't understand but because there's no negotiating with/fading iron-age barbarism: you punish it out of existence. Ruthlessly. That's the only way. It's how the British killed widow-burning in India.

[Nefertiti]

Oy! A German woman asked me about FGM yesterday. This is one of those things that tempts me to disown my Africanness. What a disgrace. Robina, this is the stuff that should inform you that Africans are largely from 3,000 years ago, Bazungu time. I feel sorry for the hubby, but I'd still jail his behind. Not because I don't understand but because there's no negotiating with/fading iron-age barbarism: you punish it out of existence. Ruthlessly. That's the only way. It's how the British killed widow-burning in India.

Yep. I also think the 2yr penalty in the law is a slap on the wrist. FGM should be treated like rape because it ruins the victim's life almost irreparably.

[RV Pundit]

This use to happen in kalenjin land...but now this is criminal

[Nefertiti]

Oy! A German woman asked me about FGM yesterday. This is one of those things that tempts me to disown my Africanness. What a disgrace. Robina, this is the stuff that should inform you that Africans are largely from 3,000 years ago, Bazungu time. I feel sorry for the hubby, but I'd still jail his behind. Not because I don't understand but because there's no negotiating with/fading iron-age barbarism: you punish it out of existence. Ruthlessly. That's the only way. It's how the British killed widow-burning in India.

Makes me wonder alot about that relatively fast evolution you alluded to. 

[KenyanPlato]

Kenyan tribes are going backwards. I am not sure if it is because of poverty. Even in kikuyu land customs that were abandoned 50 years ago are on the rise again. FGM is a curse that wont go away. Maasai's need reeducation camps to move them to at least 18th century