Kenya: Teen Mother Tells Court She Chose to Undergo FGM

2 September 2020

A 17-year old mother yesterday narrated to a Maua magistrate's court how she underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in order to be accepted in the family of her child's father.

Clutching her child, the young mother who together with two other minors underwent the cut last week, said she bowed to pressure.

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