FGM father blames wife

A lawyer accused of punishing his ten year-old daughter by arranging for her to undergo female genital mutilation told a court: ‘I’m a Catholic – I don’t believe in it.’ The 50-year-old African man, who cannot be named, hired an amateur surgeon to cut the girl using a razor blade at their south London home between 2009 and 2013, it is claimed. He even ‘egged on’ the cutter as the child cried out in pain and begged for the ordeal…