Female Genital Mutilation:
Doctor Becomes First to Face Prosecution for F.G.M.
A doctor at a major London hospital has become the first person to be prosecuted in Britain for female genital mutilation, prosecutors said today.
Dr Dhanoun Dharmasena is accused of committing an offence under a 2003 law on a woman who gave birth at the Whittington Hospital in north London in November 2012. The hospital has specialist services to help women with FGM.
The woman had already been mutilated and it is alleged that the doctor “repaired” the FGM previously performed on the patient and carried out further FGM, according to a statement by the Crown Prosecution Service.
Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, said: “Having carefully considered all the available evidence, I have determined there is sufficient evidence and it would be in the public interest to prosecute Dr Dhanoun Dharmasena for an offence contrary to S1 (1) of the Female Genital Mutilation Act (2003).”
A second man, Hasan Mohamed, who is not a medic, has also been charged with encouraging an offence of FGM and aiding and abetting Dr Dharmasena to carry out the act, said Ms Saunders.
The pair will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on April 15, 2014.
Prosecutors said they had also looked at four other cases.
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