Father ‘used virus lie to trick daughters into genital mutilation’
A man in Egypt who allegedly had female genital mutilation (FGM) carried out on his three daughters after tricking them, has been charged along with the doctor who performed the procedure.
The doctor went to the girls’ house after their father told them they would receive a coronavirus “vaccination”, Egypt’s prosecutor-general said.
The girls, aged under 18, were drugged and the doctor then cut their genitals.
FGM was made illegal in 2008 in Egypt, but remains widespread.
Ayooluwa Joshua