"Get 'em."
This is nothing more than a case of violence against little girls, no, wait, girls do not fall under the
Violence Against Women Act because the Act does not capture girls or victims of human trafficking.
Girls fall under child protective services which is privatized, and in many instances, operates under the color of law of the
Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which also just so happens to have a
land use regulation or rather "protection".
I thought it wise to claim the defensive arguments, in advance, because you know they like to throw those holy ground protection spells under the First Amendment out there.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that religion has always been used to cloak the residuals of the peculiar institution, in the name of the tax exempt god.
Is it not time to preserve the annals of history and make the defendants present their proofs for the methods and reasons of why they brand their chattel?
I would like to see some hard core, raw cross examinations as to what happens if a girl does not want to be "cut" and how come no one has ever reported it.
I would like to hear original source testimony from the religious leaders and child protection organizations as to why they have not brought forth any public educational campaign on what to do when a little girl is in the situation of refusing to be tied down, occasionally drugged, legs spread, to have a body part severed, as part of a bloody religious ritual.
Is there a celebration afterwards?
Obviously, these girls did not believe in this religious ritual, having to be dragged across state lines under the guise of a religious celebration, then drugged and restrained.
Is this not a violation of a child's religious beliefs considering the fact that they were probably screaming the name of God to make it all stop, if they were not drugged up, you know?
Where are all the child protection groupies and how come they are not protesting like they are protesting the separation of children at the border and not the separation of children by Child Protective Services, because children have no civil rights, you know?
You do know the
Violence Against Women Act is being tied to the Budget, if not approved, set to shutdown government October 31, 2018, right?
Where is
Dawud Walid?
Where are the civil rights affronters
Kary Moss &
Michael Steinberg?
It is campaign season, you know.
I only share these few words of inspiration to remind the world that Detroit is preserving the annals of history through the U.S. Department of Justice.
"Get 'em, all."
The federal government has found three more female genital mutilation victims who traveled to Michigan for the procedure — all of them elementary school girls from Illinois who came here with their mothers for religious cuttings, prosecutors say.
One of the girls was cut on Valentine's Day in 2015; another at the start of her 2015 school year, court records show. The third was cut in March 2015.
All three Illinois girls were about 7 years old at the time of the procedures, according to a new indictment filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where eight people are facing charges in the nation's first genital mutilation case, including two doctors and four mothers.
Prosecutors have now identified nine victims in the case: two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota; four Michigan girls ages 8-12, and the three Illinois girls.
According to the new indictment, one of the Michigan girls was given Valium ground up in liquid Tylenol during her procedure in 2015.
The lead defendant in the case is Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 45, of Northville, whom prosecutors have estimated performed genital mutilation on at least 100 girls over a 12-year-period.
For Nagarwala, this latest indictment comes with some bigger headaches as the government re-charged her with a crime that could send her to prison for 30 years if convicted: conspiracy to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Nagarwala had initially been charged with a similar crime — it carried a life sentence — accusing her of transporting a minor with intent to engage in "sexual activity." A federal judge dismissed that count eight months ago, concluding there wasn't merit for it, as the defense argued.
But this time around, the prosecution added in a tweaked version of that crime, accusing Nagarwala of "illicit sexual conduct" as opposed to "sexual activity." This charge involves the 2017 cuttings involving the two Minnesota girls who described the procedures as painful.
According to court documents, one girl said that she got a shot, screamed, and "could barely walk after the procedure, and that she felt pain all the way down to her ankle." The other said she was "laid on an examining table with her knees near her chest and legs spread apart," that she was "pinched" in the genital area, that it "hurted a lot" and that there was "pain and burning."
Both girls were told to keep the procedures a secret, court records show. One said "the doctor made her (friend) cry."
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Nagarwala's lawyer, Shannon Smith, declined comment. She has long maintained that her client never engaged in female genital mutilation, but rather performed a benign procedure that involves a scraping of the genitalia. The procedure, the defense has argued, is a religious practice of the Dawoodi Bohra, a small-Indian Muslim sect of which Nagarwala and her codefendants are members of.
The defense also is challenging the 1996 law that criminalized female genital mutilation in the United States, alleging it is unconstitutional. It carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.
The case involves allegations that Nagarwala and others for years subjected children to genital mutilation procedures out of a Livonia medical clinic during after hours, and went to great lengths to keep it secret. Her codefendants are Dr. Fakhuruddin Attar, who is accused of letting her use his Livonia clinic to carry out the procedures; and his wife, Farida Attar, who is accused of assisting Nagarwala in the examination room during the procedures.
"Dr. Attar is innocent, and we'll fight the new charges ithe same way that we planned to fight the old ones — with truth and the facts," Attar's attorney, Mary Chartier, write the Free Press in an email.
A fourth woman, Tahera Shafiq, also is charged with assisting in the exam room. The other four defendants are mothers, accused of subjecting their children to the practice.
According to court records, Nagarwala and the Attars instructed members of their religious community not to speak about the genital cutting procedures that had taken place.
Prosecutors have argued that the federal genital mutilation law is clear: It prohibits "knowingly circumcis(ing), excis(ing) or infibulat(ing) the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of any other person who has not attained the age of 18 years."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward has argued repeatedly in court that the defendants knew what they were doing was illegal, but did it anyway. She has called their crimes "heinous" and argues the harm was severe.
"According to some members of the community who have spoken out against the practice, the purpose of this cutting is to suppress female sexuality in an attempt to reduce sexual pleasure and promiscuity," a Homeland Security Investigations special agent wrote in a 2017 court filing.
Especially egregious, authorities have argued, is that this procedure was carried out by a doctor who took an oath to do no harm.
"She knew that this was illegal but did it anyway," Woodward has said of Nagarwala, stressing: "As a medical doctor, she is aware that female genital mutilation has no medical purpose."
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