(Brisbane Times) A Queensland mother found guilty of arranging for her two daughters to have their genitals mutilated has had her appeal dismissed after failing to convince a court her children were unreliable witnesses.
In February, the woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons, became the first person in … Queensland to be convicted of removing a child from the state for female genital mutilation.
She has consistently denied she took her daughters, then aged 12 and nine, to her birth nation of Somalia in April 2015 to undergo the procedure.
The trial heard the woman, who had undergone a similar procedure as a girl, had her daughters endure mutilation a few days after arriving in Somalia.
