Woman goes on trial for ‘aiding FGM of girl’

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a woman accused of aiding in the genital mutilation of a three-year-old girl by taking her abroad. Amina Noor, 39, allegedly took the child to Kenya in 2006 where the procedure was performed. Noor is charged with aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a non-UK citizen to mutilate the genitals of a UK female citizen. The procedure was a ‘type-1 female genital mutilation which involves the entire removal of the clitoris’….