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About 4 mutilation cases are seen each year at clinics. All this has done is indanger these little girls and not brought on good education to the parents to convince them of not conducting such acts. .
On Feb 3rd, 1999 a person by the name of Hawa Greou went on trial in France on charges of "voluntarily bodily injury causing mutilation or permanent disability." She had admitted to mutilating the genitals of about 50 young girls. Also charged were the parents of the victims. The defendant's lawyer said "If the trial can help bring about an end to this custom, then it will be useful. But punishment is not as effective as education and prevention.This is an African custom that has existed for centuries. It takes a long time to change habits." .
Thus I believe that a 5 year sentence is not enough, there needs to be more public education. .
III. The Christian Scientist faith teaches how to rely on prayer alone for physical cure. It's the middle of the night. Your baby has a climbing fever. For most parents, the normal response would be to call the pediatrician and rush the baby to a hospital. But for parents who believe in the Christian Scientist faith would rather pray and keep their child away from the medical attention they seriously need. .
A girl Amanda Bates, 13, died in her home of complications of untreated diabetes, infection was obvious in her toes. No physician's help was sought because the family believes in faith healing. The cults devotion led to the deaths of more than 172 children between 1975 and 1995 - all because parents refused to seek medical treatment for their children's illnesses.
According to autopsy reports, many of the children could have been saved easily with antibiotics. Refusing available medical treatment for yourself is one thing, but to impose your beliefs on a child who is not capable of making their own decisions or has not formed any beliefs of it's own, is another.
