Genital mutilation perpetrators get light sentence
Three followers of a Shia Muslim sect convicted in Sydney of female genital mutilation offences should receive jail time rather than home detention in order to deter others, a court has heard.
In March the followers - a mother who can't be named, midwife Kubra Magennis and Dawoodi Bohra sect community leader Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri - were each handed a minimum 11-month custodial sentence.
The mother's two daughters had their genitals cut or nicked in separate procedures in 2009 and 2012, when both were aged under 10. Midwife Magennis was found guilty of mutilating the clitoris of each girl.
If these people are let off with a light sentence, it doesn't say much about our abhorance of this disgusting crime.
They knew it was illegal...they went ahead and did it...therefore they should be jailed. Can you imagine the pain and torture of these two little girls...
If people want to continue their barbaric laws and customs...they should leave the country and not return....