Amina Noor is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM.
The defendant came under "cultural pressure" to have the procedure performed, the Old Bailey heardA woman has been found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Africa for female genital mutilation.
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. She claimed that she had only expected the girl's genitals to be "touched" in a way that would cause them to bleed.
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