Her daughter’s skin was irritated, too.
“Mother charged with forcing daughter to undergo female genital mutilation in first case of its kind in the US wants wants her ankle monitor removed because it irritates her skin,” by Regina F. Graham, Dailymail.com, October 26, 2017 (thanks to RN):
A Michigan mother charged with forcing her daughter to undergo genital mutilation wants her ankle monitor removed claiming that it irritates her skin, according to court documents filed in the case by her attorney on Tuesday.
The Oakland County mother, who has not been publicly named to protect the identity of her minor daughter, has requested for a judge to approve that the device to be removed from her ankle, the Detroit Free Press reported.
In the documents filed by her attorney, Brian Legghio, the woman argues that the ankle monitor ‘serves no practical purpose and there is no reason to continue wearing it for the next eight months.’
She added that the device ‘can never be removed — even while showering, bathing and sleeping,’ that it is ‘physically uncomfortable and causes irritation to the skin,’ and that it is ‘unnecessarily intrusive’.
Her attorney wrote: ‘It’s visual presence and it’s intermittent beeping requires (her) to explain to her 8-year-old and 5-year-old children why their mother must wear an electronic bracelet on her ankle.’
He stressed that his client had ‘no prior criminal record whatsoever’ and that she does not pose a threat to the community.
He described the woman as a stay-at-home mother who cares for her family daily while taking her children to school events and attending prayer at her local mosque.
Prosecutors have not commented on her request.
The mother’s case also involves eight defendants, including two doctors, a physician’s wife and four other mothers.
They are all accused of participating in subjecting young girls to genital mutilation as part of a religious practice within their Indian Muslim sect – the Dawoodi Bohra.
According to members of the religious group, the common age for the procedure to be performed on girls is seven.
Authorities and prosecutors believe that an estimated 100 girls had been subjected to the shocking procedure at a Livonia clinic over the last 12 years.
This is the first genital mutilation case in America after it came to light back in April when Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was indicted.
Nagarwala had worked as an emergency room physician at Henry Ford before she was terminated.
She allegedly performed the procedure on two Michigan girls and two Minnesota girls at the Livonia clinic where the owner, Dr. Fakuruddin Attar and his wife, Farida Attar, have also been charged in the case.
All of the defendants are members of the Dawoodi Bohra. The trial will begin in June for the case….
elee says
Her comfort be damned. Why weren’t her parental rights terminated? People of Michigan should investigate local prosecutor’s handling of this.
mortimer says
If you CAN’T DO THE TIME, DON’T DO THE CRIME.
The bracelet is obviously in lieu of JAIL TIME.
Does this moron prefer JAIL TIME?
gravenimage says
Exactly, Mortimer. If she doesn’t like the ankle monitor, she can always serve her time behind bars.
Jaxcy says
totally agree
Sue says
Do it jail her!!!!
Westman says
A ball and chain would be a suitable replacement.
“.. it’s intermittent beeping requires (her) to explain to her 8-year-old and 5-year-old children why their mother must wear an electronic bracelet on her ankle.” Boo hoo… The daughter needs to realize that her mother is responsible for what happened to her and its future complications.
Where is the father in all this? Did he pressure the wife?
The entire episode smacks of kid gloves and PC. And the speedy trial – next June? What possible excuse requires such a delay? Is the perp having another baby?
gravenimage says
Why are the children still in the custody of this abusive thug?
Westman says
Darn good question.
Brenda Romano says
That is a very good question.
p bay says
Flight risk… Put her in jail and take the ankle device and put it over her whining mouth
Jaxcy says
I agree, the mother that forced her daughter to undergo the horrific mutilation of her private parts deserves to be made to wear the ankle bracelet for a very long time and I hope that she does have to provide the truthful answers to her children as to why she is being made to wear it. If she wants it off, then make her go to jail……
Jaxcy says
I agree, the mother that forced her daughter to undergo the horrific mutilation of her private parts deserves to be made to wear the ankle bracelet for a very long time and I hope that she does have to provide the truthful answers to her children as to why she is being made to wear it. If she wants it off, then make her go to jail……
Brenda Romano says
Ditto!
Ren says
Put the monitor not on her ankle, nut on her neck, like a dog.
mortimer says
Deport.
PRCS says
Before the trial and–if convicted–the incarceration?
Ren says
She had her daughter’s clitoris removed and she’s blaming about her own skin irritation. Is this lunacy or what?
harbidoll says
She was cut also Im sure.
Karen says
Yes, and she can take her Sharia law with her.
John Forbes says
THE WEST IS CONTINUALLY REFUSING TO ENFORCE THEIR WON LAWS WHEN IT COMES TO MUSLIMS !
THIS CONTINUAL APPEASEMENT ERODES OUR LAWS & SOCIETY & IT IS HIGH TIME THE WESTERN PUBLIC DEMANDED THAT OUR COWARDLY LEADERS & JUDICIAL SYSTEM UPHOLD THE LAWS OF THE WEST & THE US IN PARTICULAR !
Shmoovie says
Ren: Excellent suggestion!
Keys says
Yes, wearing a monitor, like a necklace, wouldn’t be as bad as wearing a niqab all day, or in an eye for an eye spirit, mutilating whatever sex organs she has left. /sarc
For Halloween about 30 of our neighborhood kids are group ‘trick or treating’ all wearing niqabs. Not……but wouldn’t that sight make you drop the candy bowl upon opening the door ?
Darth says
The monitor enforces her release conditions.
The only way it can be removed is either at the conclusion of the case
— OR —
THE REVOCATION OF BAIL.
Her choice is simple. Irritated skin, or if it is a real health concern, she may have it removed while she is held IN CUSTODY until the resolution of the case.
Mothers who pray on thier children and especially those mothers who offer up their daughters for procedures they themselves endured are worthy of social and societal condemnation and legal punishment to the absolute fullest extent of the law as they are the epitomy of evil.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Thank you, Darth, for conveying the information that the ankle monitor enforces her release conditions (rather than being jailed while awaiting trial). This is explained nowhere in the Daily Mail article, which does not explain the legal justification for an ankle bracelet, or why a punishment is being inflicted before a trial is even held.
The Daily Mail article includes a 2-minute video explaining female genital mutilation (FGM) illustrated with colorful genital cupcakes.
Jaladhi says
Maybe she prefers residence in jail instead of ankle monitor and the freedom to move. The judge should send her to jail!!
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
Also the person who performed the FGM should be prosecuted…as well as any Imam who promotes such child abuse.
PRCS says
The alleged criminals ARE being prosecuted.
I wonder about leftists says
This woman is a threat to the community, if you mutilate your young girls, you are a big threat and why did she have it on? When I read the defence of lawyers, they make me sick too. Send her to jail instead of that ankle bracelet. We all know how it will end. Deport them.
PRCS says
From the Detroit News: per the good Doctor’s laywer:
Any mother who provided her child to Dr. Nagarwala or anyone else, for the purposes of this religious procedure, did so in absolute firm faith that this was required by their religion and that no permanent harm would come to their child
One can see where this is heading: the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
IMO, this will be a watershed decision: man made, secular, U.S. law–for all–or special exemptions for religious beliefs which run afoul of it.
NOTE:
Some members of the Dawoodi Bohra community who have spoken against the procedure said genital mutilation is performed to suppress female sexuality, reduce sexual pleasure and curb promiscuity, according to court records.
The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women, according to the World Health Organization.
Keys says
Informative post PRCS. Thanks.
Brenda Romano says
If the Dawoodi Bohra community if serious about curbing promiscuity they need to cut off male penis’s and testicles. Men: Someone who acts impulsively according to their libido and manipulates to get what they want.
Biological determinism: Used to force women into the role of morality enforcer acting to support male dominance, excusing the male sexual exploitation of women as due to a baser moral nature which can’t be changed, but which “good” woman has the duty to “tame.” It is completely without scientific foundation. (sounds a lot like reasons given for FGM)
Religious belief never over-rides civil rights. But this is not a religious belief but a cultural belief and this is not Africa, Asia, the Middle East BUT THE UNITED STATES.
zachary says
Deport the Hog she is further proof of why Muslims in Western Countries will never work they have no intention of assimilating
PRCS says
Before the trial and–if convicted–the incarceration?
DRHazard says
If the ankle monitor hurts her then, if found guilty of the charges against her, be forced to wear it for the rest of her life. Here daughter will have mutilated genitals for the rest of her life. In the “eye for an eye” concept that underlies so much of Shariah she should actually be given a device that is surgically attached to her vagina and makes sex unpleasant and painful. Then she should be sterilized since she has no concept of what it means to love your children.
Veracious_one says
the monitot is temporary….FGM is not…
Veracious_one says
monitor…
Veracious_one says
should be monitor….
gravenimage says
Michigan: Muslim mother who forced daughter to undergo FGM wants her ankle monitor removed, irritates her skin
……………………….
Doesn’t *having your clitoris cut out* irritate your skin, as well? More Muslim victim-mongering.
God, I hate Islam.
Karen says
Ha, good one!
Sharia law irritates me; I’d like it removed from the West.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… The mother’s case also involves eight defendants, including two doctors, a physician’s wife and four other mothers.
They are all accused of participating in subjecting young girls to genital mutilation as part of a religious practice within their Indian Muslim sect – the Dawoodi Bohra…”
Here we go again – the art of spreading the blame. The focus in this reporting is on the ‘Indian’ and the ‘sect’. A naive reader would be excused for thinking that this practice of castrating young girls is something peculiar to an ‘Indian Sect’ especially as no reference is made to its widespread occurrence throughout the Muslim World where it has been protected and survived since ancient times.
Anne Smith says
Why are a mother and father who committed grievous bodily harm on their daughter still allowed to have custody of her?
Parents of any other religion who committed grievous bodily harm on a young child would be in prison and have the children taken away.
Something wrong somewhere.
Mary says
True!
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Give her the option of prison time as an alternative to the ankle-bracelet, and that ankle-bracelet, magically, will stop irritating her imagination. Why aren’t those Muhammedans not being charged, and sentenced, according to Mayhem laws?
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(ltmkfvwhhwdvehht12azofhs))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-750-397
Karen says
Here’s a thought – wear a sock, lady.
gloria diStefano says
IS THE CHILD ALLOWED TO SUE THEIR PARENTS WHEN SHE TURNS 18.YEARS OF AGE…. THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO HAVE FGM TAKEN FROM A 12 OLD GIRL.. HAS THE MOTHER HAD THIS DONE TO HER AND FINDS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. IF THEY ARE LIVING IN USA AT 12 YEARS OLD WHAT DO THEY SAY TO THEIR FRIENDS. AND WHAT DID THE MOTHERS CRIME HAVE TO DO WITH DAUGHTER OF THAT AGE
Mark A says
I wonder how much her daughter’s skin was, and is, irritated by the FGM procedure this mother forced her to undergo.
FGM has no place in western societies. If she doesn’t want the ankle bracelet she can serve her time in jail.