More Cultural Enrichment from Labor Green Loon's VOTE People with some good ole Female Genital Mutilation

Father in court charged with organising infant daughter's circumcision

Emma Page 
The Manly Daily
January 28,2014

A MAN who has been charged with organising the female circumcision of his nine-month-old daughter in Indonesia almost two years ago faced Manly Local Court today.

The man, 29, who recently relocated from NSW to Victoria with his family, cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Manly Local Court Magistrate William Brydon granted the suppression order, which forbids the publication of the names of the accused, his wife and the victim.

According to documents tendered to the court, police allege the accused took his infant daughter to Jakarta, Indonesia in 2012 so she could undergo female circumcision, wihch is known in the west as genital mutilation.

NSW Police were alerted to the incident after the child's mother took her to a doctor about six months later.

Following investigations, an officer from the Sex Crimes Command, Detective Kelly Barby arrested the accused at 11am on 31 December 2013.

He was charged later that day at Dee Why Police Station.

The man is yet to enter a plea and will remain on bail until he appears in Downing Centre Local Court on March 25.