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   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67225093

   A woman has been found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Africa for female genital mutilation.

   Amina Noor, 39, is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM and the second to be successfully prosecuted under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.

   Noor, from Harrow in north-west London, was born in Somalia but has British citizenship.

   In 2006 she took the child to a private house in Kenya for the procedure.

   Noor told the Old Bailey that the mutilation is done for cultural reasons and was a procedure she herself had undergone as a child.

   It was only in 2015 that the girl - who is now aged 21 and who cannot be identified - confided to a schoolteacher that she had suffered FGM and police were informed.

   Following an examination at University College Hospital in 2019 it was found that the girl’s clitoris had been completely removed.