Judge throws out historic female genital mutilation case, calls feds ‘vindictive’

Posted on by Mr. Lakhaney

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation’s first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the prosecution and FGM survivors who had hoped the Detroit case would help end a practice that is still performed on millions of girls worldwide.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/09/28/judges-tosses-detroits-historic-female-genital-mutilation-case/5902782001/

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