(AAP) A Queensland woman accused of arranging for her two daughters to undergo female genital mutilation claimed what happened to them was “from God,” a court has heard.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was interviewed by police soon after bringing the girls, aged 12 and nine, home to the Logan area, south of Brisbane, after a seven-month trip to Somalia in late 2015.
Through [an] interpreter, she told police their trip had been to visit her mother and she’d done “nothing” in relation to a genital mutilation procedure.
Whatever had happened to the girls was “from God,” she said.
The woman is on trial in Brisbane District Court, fighting two counts of removing a child from the state for female genital mutilation.
