File photo of a courtroom in the Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin city. Image: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie File photo of a courtroom in the Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin city. Image: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie THE INJURIES SUSTAINED by a young girl at the centre of a female genital mutilation trial are consistent with FGM and could not have been caused by falling on a toy as has been claimed, a court heard today.
They claim their daughter sustained her injuries after falling on a toy, something that has been disputed by doctors who examined the girl after she presented at hospital.Dr Deborah Hodes, a consultant paediatrician and FGM expert based in the UK, gave evidence today. Hodes viewed DVD footage of three examinations carried out on the girl at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin in September and December 2016.
The presence of the catheter highlighted that the bleeding was “coming from above the urethra”, she noted. “You would expect to see the clitoris and the clitotal hood, but I didn’t see this, I saw lots of blood,” Hodes told the court. While being questioned by prosecuting solicitor Shane Costeloe, Hodes confirmed that she asked for another examination to be carried out on the girl at a later date, when healing had occurred. She said this would confirm or contradict her findings and would not be painful for the child as the area had since healed. A further examination was carried out by Harty on 6 December 2016.
“It’s not possible that falling back onto this type would cause this degree of damage,” she said, adding: “It’s my opinion that there’s nothing sharp there.” Related Read 25.11.19 Woman accused of FGM says she is a victim herself and would not do the same to her daughterColman Fitzgerald SC, who is defending the male accused, told Hodes there appeared to be an inconsistency in her and Paran’s evidence as to whether the labia is located above or below the clitoris.
A witch Doctor is still out there, revered. Cultural Enrichment, my hairy arse. LeoVaradkar
Horrible, barbaric and not legal. Jail the animals who cut young girls regardless of culture or religion.
Ahh bless, this must be part of the DiversityAndInclusion that . rtenews NewstalkFM IrishTimes et al keep telling us to enjoy. The poor child has been butchered by these barbarians and sweet FA will be done. NewToTheParish1 NewToTheParish ImmigrantCrime
FGM expert... Of all things to become expert in 🤔
The extreme dangers of literal interpretations of scriptural metaphors. Not least on harmless innocent children.
Antiquated barbaric medieval practices like this are outlawed in all common law jurisdictions. Settlers in Ireland need to be forcibly apprised of this as a very minimum for entry.
Funny you never see left leaning people comment on articles like this it's as if they just ignore them. Interesting
How lucky we are to have these African savages bringing their barbaric practices to Ireland
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