STOCKHOLM, Sweden - When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother's native Somalia. The mother wanted to "make her daughter clean" and paid a man to cut off her daughter's clitoris and labia while two women held her down.
Afterward, the girl was stitched to her urethra.
No anesthesia was used.
Last year, at age 19, a Swedish court convicted the mother for those illegal acts, awarding the victim record demages.
Good news that religious freedom laws aren't getting in the way of prosecuting this hideous act.
Edit:
Link:
http://tinyurl.com/luyudw Thanks Jack for pointing out the missing link.