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Title: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: Diesel1 on November 02, 2006, 03:13:23 PM

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.

Khalid Adem, a 31-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old practice.

Prosecutors say Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in their apartment in 2001. The child's mother said she did not discover it until more than a year later. Yeah, sure you didn't love  ::)

"He said he wanted to preserve her virginity," Fortunate Adem, the girl's mother, testified this week. "He said it was the will of God. I became angry in my mind. I thought he was crazy."
The girl, now 7, also testified, clutching a teddy bear and saying that Adem "cut me on my private part." Adem cried loudly as his daughter left the courtroom.

Female circumcision is common in Adem's homeland, and his lawyer, Mark Hill, acknowledged that Adem's daughter had been cut. But he said his client did not do it, and he implied that the family of Fortunate Adem, who immigrated from South Africa when she was 6, may have had the procedure done.

The Adems divorced in 2003, and Hill suggested that the couple's daughter was encouraged to testify against her father by her mother, who has full custody. If convicted, Adem, a clerk at a suburban Atlanta gas station, could get up to 40 years in prison.

The U.S. State Department estimates that up to 130 million women had undergone circumcision worldwide as of 2001. Knives, razors or even sharp stones are usually used, according to a 2001 department report. The tools often are not sterilized, and often, many girls are circumcised in the same ceremony, leading to infection.
It is unknown how many girls have died from the procedure, either during the cutting or from infections, or years later in childbirth.
Nightmares, depression, shock and feelings of betrayal are common psychological side effects, according to the federal report.

Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of Equality Now, an international human rights group, said female circumcision is most widely practiced in a 28-country swath of Africa. More than 90 percent of women in Ethiopia are believed to have been subjected to the practice, she said, and even more in places like Egypt and Somalia.

"It is a preparation for marriage," Bien-Aime said. "If the girl is not circumcised, her chances of being married are very slim."
The practice crosses ethnic and cultural lines and is not tied to a particular religion. Activists say the practice is intended to deny women sexual pleasure. In its most extreme form, the clitoris and parts of the labia are removed and the labia that remain are stitched together.

"I had maybe read about it in Reader's Digest or some other journal, but not really considered it a possibility here," said Dr. Rose Badaruddin, the pediatrician for the Adems' daughter.
Many refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia come to Georgia through a federal refugee resettlement program.
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With immigration, the immigrants travel with their traditions," Bien-Aime said. "Female genital mutilation is not an exception."
Federal law specifically bans the practice, but many states do not have a law addressing it. Georgia lawmakers, with the support of Fortunate Adem, passed an anti-mutilation law last year. However, Khalid Adem is not being tried under that law, since it did not exist when his daughter's cutting allegedly happened.

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Get used to hearing shit like this from the africans. Over here they kill their own kids in weired vodoo rituals believeing them to be possesed by evil spirits.

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: pumpster on November 02, 2006, 03:33:50 PM

Sickening & barbaric. The poor child..

Slow torture leading to death is required. I know this is culturally accepted elsewhere but i'm speechless.

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: Camel Jockey on November 02, 2006, 04:53:54 PM

No wonder that dutch ethiopian politician had it out for islam.. haha but really she only had her own culture to blame for her suffering.

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: Eyeball Chambers on November 02, 2006, 05:59:08 PM

savages  >:(

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: Nordic Superman on November 03, 2006, 01:15:48 AM

Quote from: Camel  Jockey on November 02, 2006, 04:53:54 PM

No wonder that dutch ethiopian politician had it out for islam.. haha but really she only had her own culture to blame for her suffering.

Yeah, well this is tied only to Ethiopian culture. And yes, it is most prevelent in countries with high populations of muslims.

http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/fgm.html

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: Deedee on November 03, 2006, 06:45:15 AM

Quote from: Camel  Jockey on November 02, 2006, 04:53:54 PM

No wonder that dutch ethiopian politician had it out for islam.. haha but really she only had her own culture to blame for her suffering.

What a stupid comment.

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: pumpster on November 03, 2006, 07:07:37 AM

Actually the best thing would be to use the same scissors on his area. Without pain killers, of course. Then give him the severed nub in a box & send him on his way...

Title: Re: Father circumcised 2 year old daughter with scissors
Post by: Clubber Lang on November 03, 2006, 07:11:50 AM

i would have used a spoon

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