An Ethiopian man was deported to his home country on Monday after serving 10 years in prison for cutting off his 2-year-old daughter's clitoris with a pair of scissors at their Georgia home in 2001, federal officials said. "The elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting has broad implications for the health and human rights of women and girls, as well as societies at large." Ritualistic cutting is common in parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia and some 200 million women and girls have been subjected to the practice, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Thousands more have been sent abroad for so-called "vacation cutting" — a human rights violating practice that involves sending American-born females overseas to be cut. More than 380 people have been arrested in the U.S. for facilitating such crimes since 2003, according to ICE.

Source: Ethiopian News March 16, 2017 03:00 UTC