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Kenyan circumciser gets amnesty despite girl’s death
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A KENYAN woman who carried out female genital mutilation on a 16-year-old girl who then bled to death has been given an amnesty after agreeing to stop the practice, police said yesterday.
“We have extended an amnesty to her because she came out and owned up,” said Charles Wasike, the police chief in West Pokot county, situated on the border with Uganda. “She is an example to others, and we encourage similar people to come out and own up,” he said.
Kenya outlawed FGM in 2011, with practitioners punishable by a minimum three-year jail term or fine, and life imprisonment if the procedure causes death. The Standard newspaper said the woman, Cheponger Yarasia, admitted to police that the girl’s parents had sought her out to perform the ritual because their daughter was pregnant, and that giving birth before undergoing FGM was considered taboo.
The report said the procedure went wrong and the girl bled to death. FGM, which affects tens of millions of women particularly in the Horn of Africa and East Africa, ranges from removal of the clitoris to the mutilation and removal of other female genitalia. The girl’s parents had refused to take her to hospital in order to conceal the ordeal.
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