All three Illinois girls were about 7 years old at the time of the procedures ….. the doctors are using a religious defense. “Freedom of religion” – freedom to mutilate, murder, hate ….
Genital mutilation victims break their silence: “This is demonic.”
The indictment charges Dr. Jumana Nagarwala with Conspiracy to Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct. She is accused of bringing people from the state of Minnesota to Michigan.
Feds discover 3 more girls in genital mutilation case
Detroit Free Press, September 12, 2018:
The federal government has found three more female genital mutilation victims who traveled to Michigan for the procedure — all of them elementary school girls from Illinois whom prosecutors say were brought here by their mothers for religious cuttings.
One of the girls was cut on Valentine’s Day in 2015; another at the start of her 2015 school year, court records show. The third was cut in March 2015.
All three Illinois girls were about 7 years old at the time of the procedures, according to a new indictment filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where eight people are facing charges in the nation’s first genital mutilation case, including two doctors and four mothers.
Prosecutors have now identified nine victims in the case: two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota; four Michigan girls ages 8-12, and the three Illinois girls.
According to the new indictment, one of the Michigan girls was given Valium ground up in liquid Tylenol during her procedure in 2015.
The lead defendant in the case is Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 45, of Northville, whom prosecutors have estimated performed genital mutilation on at least 100 girls over a 12-year-period.For Nagarwala, this latest indictment comes with some bigger headaches as the government re-charged her with a crime that could send her to prison for 30 years if convicted: conspiracy to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Nagarwala had initially been charged with a similar crime — it carried a life sentence — accusing her of transporting a minor with intent to engage in “sexual activity.” A federal judge dismissed that count eight months ago, concluding there wasn’t merit for it, as the defense argued.
But this time around, the prosecution added in a tweaked version of that crime, accusing Nagarwala of “illicit sexual conduct” as opposed to “sexual activity.” This charge involves the 2017 cuttings involving the two Minnesota girls who described the procedures as painful.
According to court documents, one girl said that she got a shot, screamed, and “could barely walk after the procedure, and that she felt pain all the way down to her ankle.” The other said she was “laid on an examining table with her knees near her chest and legs spread apart,” that she was “pinched” in the genital area, that it “hurted a lot” and that there was “pain and burning.”
Both girls were told to keep the procedures a secret, court records show. One said “the doctor made her (friend) cry.”
Genital mutilation victims break their silence: ‘This is demonic’
Report: Girl’s genital mutilation injury worse than doctor claims
Nagarwala’s lawyer, Shannon Smith, was not available for comment. She has long maintained that her client never engaged in female genital mutilation, but rather performed a benign procedure that involves a scraping of the genitalia. The procedure, the defense has argued, is a religious practice of the Dawoodi Bohra, a small-Indian Muslim sect of which Nagarwala and her codefendants are members of.
The defense also is challenging the 1996 law that criminalized female genital mutilation in the United States, alleging it is unconstitutional. It carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.
The case involves allegations that Nagarwala and others for years subjected children to genital mutilation procedures out of a Livonia medical clinic during after hours, and went to great lengths to keep it secret. Her codefendants are Dr. Fakhuruddin Attar, who is accused of letting her use his Livonia clinic to carry out the procedures; and his wife, Farida Attar, who is accused of assisting Nagarwala in the examination room during the procedures. A fourth woman, Tahera Shafiq, also is charged with assisting in the exam room.
The other four defendants are mothers, accused of subjecting their children to the practice.
According to court records, Nagarwala and the Attars instructed members of their religious community not to speak about the genital cutting procedures that had taken place.
Prosecutors have argued that the federal genital mutilation law is clear: It prohibits “knowingly circumcis(ing), excis(ing) or infibulat(ing) the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of any other person who has not attained the age of 18 years.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward has argued repeatedly in court that the defendants knew what they were doing was illegal, but did it anyway. She has called their crimes “heinous” and argues the harm was severe.
“According to some members of the community who have spoken out against the practice, the purpose of this cutting is to suppress female sexuality in an attempt to reduce sexual pleasure and promiscuity,” a Homeland Security Investigations special agent wrote in a 2017 court filing.
Especially egregious, authorities have argued, is that this procedure was carried out by a doctor who took an oath to do no harm.
“She knew that this was illegal but did it anyway,” Woodward has said of Nagarwala, stressing: “As a medical doctor, she is aware that female genital mutilation has no medical purpose.”
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Just horrifying. Waris Dirie has been warning for years, and now it is here in the USA.
I’ll bet FGM isn’t just happening in muslum-friendly Michigan but rather across N. America (incl. Canuckastan)
Muslims are sneaky. Of course it’s in the U.S.! Anywhere there are Muslims, there is someone performing FGM! It is western culture vs. a third world culture! It’s against FEDERAL law but not all states have banned it….. Fed vs State?
FGM is a crime in the following 20 states:
California
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Louisiana
Maryland
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New York
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
West Virginia
Wisconsin
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Lots more to come. Sadistic people!
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FGM is such a repugnant and inhumane crime, practiced and sanctified by a misogynistic cult, Islam. Most sickeningly, the Democrats, leftist progressives, and the mealy-mouth, American feminists deem it a cultural issue; hence, it has their blessing. The above mentioned will not criticize this barbarous action of Female Genital Mutilation as Islam in their nefarious minds is beyond reproach. The priority of the above is the dissemination of anti-Semitism, anti-Christian, and anti-American, not the willful butchery of young girls or the rape and murder en-masse of non-Muslims.
Gutless judiciaries will do little to naught to stop the evildoers, after all, Islam is beyond reproach.
True, Felix, Islam and its apologists/allies wouldn’t know or speak the truth if it smacked them in the face. I’m so damn sick of the Leftists/Democrats, the so-called feminists and others who defend this cult of death.
So true. I’ve debated with idiots who make this claim. Sadly they call themselves Christians!!!
I wonder if the Muslims will start claiming that polygamy is part of their religion and that they should be allowed to openly practice it in the U.S.
Beverly I’ve considered that myself. Actually they already practice polygamy in the USA and it seems to be acceptable to society????
The “female” doctor looks like “she” is a guy with a 5-o’clock shadow. She could probably stand for a FGM operation on her again just to make sure nothing was missed the first time. Castration would be a good start for the guy. Give them a taste of their own barbaric medicine.
“muslim doctor” is scary. “first do no harm” doesn’t apply to a muslim if this patient is not a muslim; the koran allows them to harm us. i won’t allow one near me or my family
I’m with you! Unfortunately the Hippocratic Oath went by the wayside when abortion became acceptable. Today medical care is determined by your insurance plan.
I can’t believe even MUSLIM women would keep silent on this. How truly despicable.
They have no choice. Females don’t matter in Muslim countries.
Most muslim mothers insist it be done and even hold their daughters down for it. They also celebrate when their sons choose to blow themselves up during jihad against unbelievers. They are not like normal people. They are barbaric in their beliefs. They see themselves as normal, right and good.
They are so brainwashed and indoctrinated and dominated right from birth that the only out for them is suicide or escape like Ayaan Hirsi Ali
she should be in jail for ever
I would not allow an islamic doctor who worships allah, to touch me. If you demand your food be halal – skinned while alive, you will not get near me with a medical instrument. Your psychi is broken.
Just the sight of these two makes me feel slimey.
Good to see a return to this evil and nefarious act against females. When execution takes place then there will be an evening of the score. Just as jihad- terrorists need to be executed on the spot so do these evil mutilation experts of Islam. Sad thing is I need to see it really taking place. Islam is the most savage and evil fake religion that exists today and only by executing them and destroying all they hold sacred-imams. mosques, their weapons and amo. within theses Mosques that aren’t monitored-etc.etc—-Pray that the USA will get tough and crush Islam-CAIR and Mbrotherhood juist the tip of the savage political ideology!!!
Disgusting practice…..as is most of Islam. It should NOT be recognized as a religion because it is an ideology that is totally inhumane.
Why do I fear that a judge somewhere will find a right to FGM in the Constitution, right next to the right to privacy and the right to an abortion. Has this country really fallen this far?
All those involved in and aiding FGM should get the death penalty and it should be carried out asap. Get busy Congress.