Jurors have been told that a British three-year-old was subjected to female genital mutilation during a trip to Kenya in 2006.
A woman feared being “cursed” if she failed to hand over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation in Kenya, a court has heard.
Giving evidence on Friday, Somali-born Noor said she would have been “disowned and cursed” by community members if she did not take part.It is alleged she travelled with the defendant and another woman in a tuk-tuk to a private house in the east African country where the procedure took place. When Noor was interviewed by police, she denied that anyone had made threats against her to force her to agree to FGM.She said: “I didn’t know whether this was going to be something that is harming but I did not want to allow it whatever it might be.She told jurors she “felt pain” over the threat, saying: “That was a pressure I had no power to do anything about.”Noor said she did not think it was safe to say and also that she was not asked about it.
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