Man arrested following investigation into alleged female genital mutilation - Child Abuse Squad
NSW Police
Wednesday, 01 January 2014 11:44:56 PM
A man has been arrested and charged in relation to the alleged female genital mutilation of an infant.
Officers from the Child Abuse Squad have been told that while holidaying overseas in February 2012 the man
allegedly organised for his daughter, who was then nine-months-old, to undergo a procedure known as female circumcision.
NSW Police were alerted to the incident after the child’s mother took her to a doctor about six months later.
Following investigations, police arrested a man yesterday (Tuesday 31 December 2013).
He was subsequently charged with aid/abet/counsel or procure female genital mutilation.
The man was granted conditional bail and will appear in Manly Local Court on Tuesday 28 January 2014.
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