{"id":11908,"date":"2019-03-10T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2019-03-10T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T11:59:28","slug":"a-british-court-has-sentenced-a-37-year-old-ugandan-woman-to-11-years-in-prison-for-the-genital-cutting-of-her-3-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/2019\/03\/10\/a-british-court-has-sentenced-a-37-year-old-ugandan-woman-to-11-years-in-prison-for-the-genital-cutting-of-her-3-year-old-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"A British court has sentenced a 37-year-old Ugandan woman to 11 years in prison for the genital cutting of her 3-year-old daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/09\/world\/europe\/uk-fgm-female-genital-mutilation-sentence.html?action=click&amp;module=Latest&amp;pgtype=Homepage\"><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;..The girl was taken to a hospital and lost a significant amount of blood because of her injuries, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-47094707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The judge, Philippa Whipple, said the woman was guilty of child abuse. \u201cIt\u2019s a barbaric practice and a serious crime,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s an offense which targets women, particularly inflicted when they are young and vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The girl\u2019s father, 43, had been cleared of charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Female genital cutting has been illegal in Britain since 1985, but previous prosecutions have led to acquittals&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8220;&#8230;..The girl was taken to a hospital and lost a significant amount of blood because of her injuries, according to the BBC. The judge, Philippa Whipple, said the woman was guilty of child abuse. \u201cIt\u2019s a barbaric practice and a serious crime,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s an offense which targets women, particularly inflicted when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}