(7 News) Two women have pleaded guilty to planning genital mutilation surgery on a baby girl in Perth.
The girl’s mother Sarah Lightbody, 23, and her co-accused, Noridah Binte Mohd, 50, appeared in Armadale Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The pair admitted asking a doctor to perform the illegal practice of “female cutting” on the two-week-old baby in January this year.
But they have pleaded guilty to only planning the procedure because it didn’t happen.
The doctor refused and alerted the police.