Dad Found Guilty Of Genital Mutilation

(AP)  An Ethiopian immigrant who was convicted Wednesday of the genital mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced to 10 years in prison in what was believed to be the first such criminal case in the United States.

Khalid Adem, 30, was convicted of aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Prosecutors said he used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in his family's Atlanta-area apartment in 2001.

The child's mother, Fortunate Adem, said she did not discover it until more than a year later.

During her father's trial, the girl, now 7, testified on videotape while clutching a teddy bear that her father "cut me on my private part."

Federal law specifically bans the practice of genital mutilation, but many states do not have a law addressing it. Georgia lawmakers, with the support of Fortunate Adem, passed an anti-mutilation law last year, but Khalid Adem was not tried under that law since it did not exist when his daughter's cutting allegedly happened.

During the trial, Khalid Adem testified he never circumcised his daughter or asked anyone else to do so. He said he grew up in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and considers the practice more prevalent in rural areas.

The Adems divorced three years ago, and attorney Mark Hill suggested that the couple's daughter was coached to testify against her father by her mother, who has full custody of the girl.

Khalid Adem, who cried throughout the trial and during his testimony, was asked what he thought of someone who believes in the practice. He replied: "The word I can say is 'mind in the gutter.' He is a moron."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, using figures from the 1990 Census, has estimated that 168,000 girls and women in the U.S. had undergone the procedure or were at risk of being subjected to it. Since 2001, the State Department estimates that up to 130 million women worldwide had undergone circumcision.

Knives, razors or even sharp stones are usually used, according to a 2001 department report. The tools often are not sterilized, and often, many girls are circumcised at the same ceremony, leading to infection.

The report estimated that 73 percent of women in Ethiopia had undergone the procedure, based on a 1997 survey.

The practice crosses ethnic and cultural lines and is not tied to a particular religion. Activists say the practice is intended to deny women sexual pleasure. In its most extreme form, the clitoris and parts of the labia are removed and the labia that remain are stitched together.

[agnim]

"You act as if they're giving little babies blow jobs. They're are sucking a bit of blood from the wound. It's medical, not sexual"

Medical my arse!

If anything, that deviant practice is worse than cutting cl!ts!
Yet we have never heard Americans getting bent out of shape over these romeo rabbis.

And you know what, I for one care little about these 'strange' cultural practices one way or another.

However, we need to be consistent to appear credible; otherwise we come across as ignorant cultural bigots because we unable to bend our stiff little minds around reasonable practices with which people have been quite comfortable for centuries.

Some cultures prefer that their women behave with more dignity.

Other cultures don't mind if their women spread out their privities like beasts on porn sites for all the world to see.

[squiz2]

"rabbis cut little kocks and suck on them, a **** practice"

You act as if they're giving little babies blow jobs. They're are sucking a bit of blood from the wound. It's medical, not sexual, moron. Are you that homophobic that you turn everything into a gay sexual encounter? Do you think when a doctor grabs your balls and asks you to cough that he's trying to fondle you? No moron, he's doing his job.

[agnim]

"Tell me, why do you live here if you advocate sharia in America?"

"Advocate sharia in America"? You are laughable. Ha ha.

Are the Jews practicing your 'sharia in America' when they do their circumcision and even suck on young kocks in the process? LOL

Circumcision has nothing to do with your sharia. Circumcision is a far more ancient practice.

As you have bragged about your so-called judeo-christian tradition, you should know that cutting of children's genitalia have been going on in America and the west for the longest time by those who have copied Jewish practices.


The point I'm making is that it is just ignorance, hypocrisy and cultural bigotry why circumcision is done in judeo-christian culture, but is maligned and mislabeled when practice by others.


I have never witness any American or western outrage when rabbis cut little kocks and suck on them, a **** practice that is even more gross than merely cutting ***.

[neveradhimmi]

Hey genius, keep posting your defense of genital mutilation, as you only demonstrate my points. You defend something because it 'goes way back.' You never answer my question, calling it a moot point, which it is not, you have not addressed it, because you know I'm right. You are defending 'cutting,' so just keep on posting. You need to go back to the Taliban, where women are beaten, beheaded, mutilated, because according to your logic (or lack thereof), you like this barbarism because it 'goes way back.' You delight in the the infliction of terror on women, you delight in the agony of this young baby, because 'it goes way back.' That must make it right! You have ignored the fact that I have stated repeatedly that I do not condone this practice anywhere. Mass deportation is on the way pal, and you'll be the first one on the boat. Apologists like you are ruining your religion. Don't live here if you cannot or will not abide by our laws. Nowhere does it say we have to accomodate your brutality against women. Tell me, why do you live here if you advocate sharia in America? Our standard of living perhpas, a chance to get an education and have a better life rather than crawling around in an uneducated, poverty-stricken, sick third world barrio? You are not welcome here. Its against the law in America to take a pair of sewing scissors and cut the flesh of babies. What part of that do you not understand?

[agnim]

"The practice of circumcizing women is another attempt for men to control women by denying them sexual pleasure that she may otherwise not experience."

What nonsense you write, Snickers?
Female circumcisions are almost always done by females as part of their rites of passage.

To their credit, some of the alert females take it upon themselves to exercise some self-control.
We are unlikely to see them spreading without dignity their private parts all over the Internet porn sites.

[agnim]

"And you still don't answer my question, what happens to me in a Muslim country if I break their laws?"

Your question has already been answered. It is moot! It is irrelevant!

The practice of circumcision goes way back.
Circumcision predates the insane islamic and judeo-christian ideologies/cultures.

And of course that man has to practice his ritualistic cutting on his daughter at home; since this biased and hypocritical society is only allowing judeo-christian cutting of kocks.

And it matters not how many Jewish sects are allowed to cut and suck tiny kocks.
That fact is it has been allowed in America!

By the way, the ONLY reason that the rabbis were cautioned against cutting and sucking the tiny diks was of concern that certain diseases may have been transmitted to a few children from the cutting and sucking on the tiny kocks.

There was otherwise NO outrage over the practice or any attempt to label it as 'genital mutilation'.

[pakaal]

While the Jewish tradition of the practitioner sucking the *** after cutting the foreskin is really rare, it is a part of the orthodox tradition. But that part of it is almost never practiced.

Ritual mutilation should be limited to consenting adults, IMO. And I'm certainly happy that this case had its day in court - more people should take a stand against this backwards practice.

[kjgal]

In this little girl's defense, I am 37 years old and I have very vivid memories of when I was two. My family has confirmed these memories.
I don't know all of the details of the Jewish faith, but I have never heard of them "sucking" circumcised foreskins. Could you elaborate as much as this forum will allow you to? This absolutely sickens me! I would NEVER let anyone do such things to my daughter. I would kill whoever tried or die trying! These barbarians are going to have so much to answer for when they meet their, MY, maker!

[cantshutup]

omg! If you are a male and circumsized, it is possible to re-train any excess skin remaining to its natural state. Google it, it's true!

[neveradhimmi]

Snickers, too true. There are plenty of Muslim countries where female genital mutilation is not practiced and is regarded with the horror that 'westerners' feel when confronted with the image of an adult cutting the genitalia of toddlers and young women, because this is not done to infant girls but usually girls older than two or three, without anesthetic mind you, or clean surgical instruments. Its all about removing the sexual pleasure of women to keep them docile and submissive, so they won't enjoy *** and they won't cheat, as women are nothing more than dogs in these countries. Its like when they cut off the foot of a runaway slave to keep them incapable of any autonomy. There is nothing in Islam to mandate this barbarism, and many mullahs oppose the practice.