LF: Feds Arrest Detroit Doctor for Female Genital Mutilation of Girls Across American Midwest

Title: Feds Arrest Detroit Doctor for Female Genital Mutilation of Girls Across American Midwest
Source: Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... girls-across-american-midwest/
Published: Apr 13, 2017
Author: Ian Mason
Post Date: 2017-04-13 18:50:28 by cranky
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Views: 2056
Comments: 9

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala was arrested by the FBI Thursday and charged with carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on multiple six to eight-year-old girls at her Livonia, Michigan office.

Dr. Nagarwala’s case is the first FGM prosecution in America under a new law aimed at the practice, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The 11-page complaint issued accompanying her arrest makes guarded references to “members of a particular religious and cultural community.”

FGM is common in the Islamic world, particularly in Africa. According to UNICEF, 98% of Somali girls, and 87% of Egyptians have endured the procedure. FGM involves removing varying amounts of the victim’s, usually a pre-pubescent girl, clitoris, labia majoria, and labia minora. In its most extreme form, the victim is “infibulated,” having virtually all her external genitalia removed and being sown up, leaving her with only a tiny hole from which to urinate and menstruate.

Nagarwala, who works as an emergency room doctor at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital, is charged with mutilating two Minnesota girls from separate families at her office in Livonia, Michigan. The victims’ identities remain sealed, but Minnesota is host to the largest Somali immigrant population in the United States, a community in which FGM is prevalent. The complaint also alleges multiple Michigan girls have told authorities Nagarwala had cut their genitals as far back as 2005-2007, before the federal law under which she is charged had taken effect.

According to the complaint, the Minnesota victims’ parents brought them to the Detroit suburbs together, telling the children it was a “special girls trip.” They also are alleged to have told the girls the procedure was to “get the germs out.”

One of the victims described her ordeal to the FBI as “getting a shot.” She claims she screamed in pain as she was cut into, the procedure leaving her barely able to walk. She told authorities her parent told her not to talk of what happened in Dr. Nagarwala’s office.

DOJ officials issued statements about prosecuting this type of crime, heretofore unheard of in federal law enforcement. “The Department of Justice is committed to stopping female genital mutilation in this country, and will use the full power of the law to ensure that no girls suffer such physical and emotional abuse,” Acting Attorney General of the DOJ’s Criminal Division said as he announced the charges against Nagarwala.

Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch, whose office will be prosecuting the case, added, “The practice has no place in modern society and those who perform FGM on minors will be held accountable under federal law.”

“The allegations against the defendant in this investigation are made even more deplorable, given the defendant’s position as a trusted medical professional in the community,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Francis.

Nagarwala faces a maximum of five years for each count of FGM.

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala is typical. I go to the VA and 85% of the so-called Doctors there have names like that. The VA brings them in from forein countries, rubber stamps their credentials from dingbat medical schools, then turns them loose on the veterans. It's part of a crusade to establish medical multiculturism. At VA central hospital in Washinton, half the doctors there have the first name Mohammed.

It's more about the VA not paying enough to get good doctors,so they get doctors that can't buy malpractice insurance and know they can work at the VA without getting sued.

BTW,I had a stroke a few years ago,and have been running high blood pressue for the last week. Top number mostly in the 160's and sometimes 170's,and bottom number running from 79 to 86. Couldn't get an appointment right away at the local VA outreach clinic,so went to the ER last week. They told me I was borderline and as long as the bottom number stayed below 86 to not worry about it too much,but that I did need to see the VA doc about it,and about a spot they found on a lung while getting a CAT scan.

I called the VA the next morning,and my appointment is for the 10th of May. Think about THAT for a minute. i00 percent service-connected disabled vet,over 70 years old,history of having a stroke,high blood pressure several days in a row,a mysterious growth in a lung,and it takes me 30 days to see a doctor at the VA.

BTW,the ER visit is probably going to cost me 2 grand or more,and the VA will NOT pay it because I didn't get VA approval to visit the local ER first. To get this permission,you have to visit the VA first and get their approval.

Sorry to hear about your BP Pete. Do they have you on any meds for that, any advice to you about diet, etc ?

Nope,but the good news is they might start doing this when I get to see the VA doc on 10 May.