Jury in FGM trial told they have to make an 'immensely important decision'

File photo of the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie File photo of the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin. Image: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie THE JURY IN the trial of parents accused of allowing FGM to be carried out on their young daughter have been told they have to make an “immensely important decision”.

The man, aged in his 30s, and the woman, aged in her 20s, also pleaded not guilty to one count of child cruelty on the same day. “If you don’t believe it but you decide that it could reasonably be possible, that means that you have a doubt and you acquit them.” “If you decide that their explanation is not reasonably possible, you can make the decision that they are lying, and if they are lying you can take that lie as indicative of their guilt,” he said.

He stated that if they are guilty of the first count, FGM, “there can be little doubt that they are guilty of the second count” – allowing their child to be ill-treated.In his closing statement, Colman O’Sullivan SC, who is defending the male accused, told the jury members they “are going to be making immensely important decisions”.

O’Sullivan said there is “a particular need for the jury to be careful” when relying on expert evidence. He added that “it is normal to put weight, and to accept almost without question” what an expert says, especially in the case of doctors. O’Sullivan told the jury that even if they believe the doctors’ evidence, they’re “halfway at best” to finding the accused guilty. He said the prosecution failed to present evidence about who may have carried out FGM if it occurred, or any evidence about how his client aided and abetted it to take place.

He stated that Paran last week told the trial that he noted a laceration on one side of the girl’s labia minora. Paran said he initially thought the labia minora “may be gone” too but a later examination carried out by him and colleagues found it “was still there but had been cut”. He noted that doctors confirmed to the trial that a child would generally have to be restrained or sedated in order for FGM to be carried out on them. “If this was an act of FGM done on the child, it required her to either be restrained or sedated. Dr Harty was quite clear, there was no evidence to suggest restraint at all,” he said.

If the toy is a complete and utter invention, you’d have to ask why pick this thing which apparently doesn’t have anything sharp on it? You’d have to ask yourself why anyone would do that. It really doesn’t make a lot of sense. Gageby stated that his client engaged with gardaí and doctors throughout the entire process but “has never agreed that her daughter was subjected to FGM” or that she allowed her to be.

‘Falling on a toy’! As both a parent and the owner myself of a vulva I call utter BS on this story. FGM is child abuse and should be prosecuted as such.

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