LONDON

By our correspondents
March 19, 2016

LONDON: A mother and midwife who subjected two young girls to female genital mutilation in Australia were sentenced to 15 months each on Friday following a landmark FGM trial. The mother of four, who cannot be named for legal reasons, asked nurse Kubra Magennis to carry out the secret ritual on her two older daughters. Both are members of the Dawoodi Bohra community. Shabbir Vaziri, a Dawoodi Bohra religious leader, was also sentenced to 15 months for trying to cover up the offences.