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300 Kenyan girls flee circumcision. Some of the girls are as young as nine. NINE!
Police are providing security at the centres to ensure that the girls are not forcibly removed or harassed.
Beatrice Robi, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake’s district chairperson and a gender activist, says that at least 200 girls are undergoing circumcision in the district a day.
She said she had found a seven-year-old girl who had just been circumcised.
“There are more girls who are still in their homes and they are undergoing it [circumcision], whether it is voluntarily or they are being forced,” she told the BBC.
She says her organisation along with the local churches and authorities have been trying to convince the community to stop the practice and rescuing girls from forced circumcision.
Emphasis mine.
This is just…barbaric. It sucks that this crap is going on in the world. FGM is absoultely unnecessary. And to think this happened to a seven-year-old! What the crap?!
