Those who perform & those who demand FGM should be locked away for good with cyanide pill on the cell's bedside table for their personal use.

o sung wu,
From my reading on this, in Australia it is most commonly carried out on the kitchen table by a visiting operative who is paid by the parents. The 'patient' is held down by a number of older women or aunties and the cutting performed with say a razor blade, stanley type knife, scapel or some other sharp instument. Whether locasl anaesthesia is used or not would depend on the operatives medical experience and access to such. Sterilization of insutments and the pubic area similarly would depend on the operatives medical experience.

Patients legs are bound together afterwards so as not to allow movement that will hinder the healing process. Aftercare is at home and may or may not involve visits by the operative, depending upon the fee charged.

That is not the end of suffering for the girl however, upon later marriage her labia may have to be opened (cut) by her husband to allow penile penertration. Later at childbirth she would require cutting again because scar tissue does not stretch like the natural tissue during birth. then stitches inserted after.

How much cutting depends on how radical the mutilation was.

Basically that is it, but information is available by googling.

'evening to you BELLY & BANJO...

Thank you both for providing me with some insight into this insidious practice. Of course, I've always been aware of the basics of this barbaric operation. But like many men, I didn't understand the real essentials, of the 'why', and 'how' the actual process is achieved.

By the sound of it, any comparison of FGM, with that of the normal practice of male circumcision, which is carried out by a Doctor in a Hospital, is both odious and nauseating.

How any parent; Of any culture; Of any religion; could ever subject their beloved daughter, to such a savage and brutal assault, just beggers belief ?

What in God's name are we doing, by allowing such......barbaric cruel, and evil people, to perpetrate such savagery on a little girl child, irrespective of their believe(s), and sense of what's culturally right ?

Politicians of all colours, must strenghen and where necessary, pass laws, allowing for the heaviest of punishment to be implemented on those individuals who commit such savagery.

I believe we all live in Australia. Not Auschwitz, Dachau, Ravensbruck or Buchenwald. If we, allegedly a decent and humane society, permit this practice to continue, for whatever reason(s).

Then surely, are we not just as culpable as those who meekly stood by and watched, as cruelty and atrocities were occurring daily in Dachau and similar ?

Technically, circumcision is also genital mutilation performed without consent. It's more a social decision than a medical one as there are more arguments against the practice than for it, yet it continues.

From the comments above one would think FGM is some sort of epidemic happening all over the country rather than a couple of incidents over 15 years or so.

I just will not seethe two compared.
FGM is mostly a back yard thing the other hospital.
Multiculturalism?, now hang on, it is not a true use of the word.
Early migration never saw demands to be free to break our laws.
Or even import their laws.
And what group hurts its children based on such primitive reasoning.
Problems with SOME Muslim migrants have NOTHING to do with Multiculturalism.
For SOME no intent to adopt our culture exists.

For SOME no intent to adopt our culture..
Belly,
So true, it's way too easy for them not to because there is nothing to adopt.
So far as our Laws are concerned all they need to do is disregard them because they're not going to get punished anyway. Only the decent get a wrapp over the knuckles here.