UK Dentist Struck Off For Offering to Perform Female Genital Mutilation
A dentist who offered to perform genital mutilation on two young girls in a sting by an undercover reporter has been struck off.
Omar Sheikh Mohamed Addow, 56, is the first dentist to be struck off by the General Dental Council for the crime, which carries a maximum 14-year sentence in the UK.
The council's Professional Conduct Committee found that Addow had also performed an inappropriate examination of the reporter's chest, abdomen and vagina at his surgery, which was illegal as he was not a doctor registered with the General Medical Council.
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When asked to perform FGM on the reporter's two nieces, aged 10 and 13, Addow was filmed on a hidden camera agreeing, and said that he could go to prison for performing the procedure, "but I will do it for you."
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FMG involves the removal of outer parts of the vulva, and is believed to have been carried out on as many as 66,000 women in the UK, mostly in other countries.
The practice is associated with communities in Africa, particularly Mali, Somalia, Sudan and Kenya, and parts of the Middle East.
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A dentist who offered to perform genital mutilation on two young girls in a sting by an undercover reporter has been struck off.
Omar Sheikh Mohamed Addow, 56, is the first dentist to be struck off by the General Dental Council for the crime, which carries a maximum 14-year sentence in the UK.
The council's Professional Conduct Committee found that Addow had also performed an inappropriate examination of the reporter's chest, abdomen and vagina at his surgery, which was illegal as he was not a doctor registered with the General Medical Council.
...
When asked to perform FGM on the reporter's two nieces, aged 10 and 13, Addow was filmed on a hidden camera agreeing, and said that he could go to prison for performing the procedure, "but I will do it for you."
...
FMG involves the removal of outer parts of the vulva, and is believed to have been carried out on as many as 66,000 women in the UK, mostly in other countries.
The practice is associated with communities in Africa, particularly Mali, Somalia, Sudan and Kenya, and parts of the Middle East.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
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