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"Kelly J. Morris" <kjmorris at CPCUG.ORG> 02/16/99 09:05pm >>>
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    PARIS, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A Paris court has handed down an
eight-year jail sentence to an African woman accused of
circumcising some 50 young girls and lesser terms to some of
their parents, France Info radio reported on Tuesday.
     After 10 hours of deliberations, the court passed sentences
ranging from three years suspended to two years in prison for 26
parents whose girls were genitally mutilated by Hawa Greou, a
Malian woman, the report said.
     The parents were tried as accomplices in the ritual
mutilation of 48 girls.
     The Paris trial, which opened on February 2, was the largest
ever brought against the practice of female circumcision in
France and the first to be triggered by a victim's complaint.
     It was also the first tried by a woman, Judge Martine Varin.
     The case stemmed from a complaint by Mariatou Koita, 23, a
French woman of Malian origin who is now a Paris law student.
     She demanded to see a judge five years ago after 52-year-old
Hawa Greou, also of Malian origin, went to her parents' flat to
circumcise her younger sister Mariam.
     Koita, who moved out of her parents' home in protest at her
sister's plight, had recognised Greou as the woman who had
circumcised her a decade earlier, when she was eight.
     Investigators tracked down the other defendants through
telephone records. Greou, who had been in pre-trial custody since
mid-1994, faced up to 20 years in prison.
     Female circumcision became a crime in France in 1984 but it
was not until 1991 that the first conviction was handed down.
     Female circumcision has been carried out on an estimated 130
million girls in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
     The practice, transplanted to the West via immigration, is
performed primarily, but not solely, by Moslems because of what
critics say is a misconception that it is required by Islam.
     The painful procedure, often carried out with crude,
unsterilised instruments, has been banned in several African
nations including Senegal, Burkina Faso, the Central African
Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Togo and Djibouti.