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Man who sent girl to Iraq for FGM jailed in legal first for England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)
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former PhD student has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for arranging to send a young girl to Iraq for female genital mutilation (FGM), in the first conviction of its kind in England and Wales.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

Hopefully MGM gets banned too next

[-] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh no but it's so ingrained in our beloved religions

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Hey I like that lion though. What'd he ever do to you?

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Why wouldn't he castrate himself to set an example?

[-] Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Cowards gonna cower.

[-] llamatron@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Some days I think our species is doomed and we deserve it.

[-] slartibartfast@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Let’s make religion the doomed thing instead.

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