Medical experts and victims say practice, deemed by perpetrators to protect girls from sexual harassment and rape, is child abuse
Comfort was nine when her older sister told her she was going to flatten her chest with a stone to prevent her breasts from developing too soon, telling her it was for her own good.“But that didn’t prevent nothing,” she added. Born in Nigeria, Comfort moved to the UK with her family three years later, in 1998.“I was really scared – I thought it might be cancer. It was barely six months after I got married.
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