Saturday, June 28, 2008
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ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - A Swiss court has found the Somali-born parents of a teenage girl guilty of arranging the removal of their daughter's clitoris.
It is the first time a court in Switzerland has ruled on female circumcision.
The court in Zurich handed the parents each a two-year suspended prison sentence and ordered them to pay their daughter compensation to be determined later.
Thursday's ruling said the couple hired a fellow Somali to perform the procedure on their kitchen table when the girl was two years old.
The case came to light last year when the girl, then 13, was examined at a Zurich hospital.
The United Nations estimates that 7,000 women in Switzerland have been subjected to female circumcision in some form. Most of the circumcisions were performed elsewhere.
Source: AP, June 28, 2008