FEMALE CIRCUMCISION: MOTHER ARRESTED FOR CIRCUMCISING HER 13 YEAR-OLD TWINS

November 24, 2018

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A mother, Florence Muthoni, from Tharaka-Nithi county, has been arrested and sent to jail on Wednesday by a magistrates court the following day in the town of Chuka, in Kenya for circumcising her 13 year-old twins.

Muthoni was exposed when a Charity organisation was alerted of the woman’s intention to make her daughters undergo female genital mutilation. The director of the organisation reported to local authorities but unfortunately before the police could raid and rescue the girls they had already undergone the painful ordeal.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is known as female circumcision and is practiced by many people in Africa. The process is very painful and dangerous as it sometimes leads to infection and sometimes ends in the death of the young girl.

FGM was banned in Kenya in 2011. However, some communities still practice female circumcision as they believe it is a rite of passage and a social necessity if a girl desires to get married in the future.

The case is still under investigation as the mother of the twins has refused to reveal who performed the circumcision.