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Four girls in hospital after undergoing forced FGM in Embu
Four girls aged below 12 years are recuperating at the Embu Level Five Hospital after they underwent forced circumcision. Police rescued three others who were about to undergo the cut. PHOTO | CHARLES WANYORO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The girls had been sent to take sukuma wiki and ropes for tethering goats to their grandmother, unaware that it was a ploy to have them undergo the cut.
- County Commissioner Esther Maina said they received a tipoff that the girls, all cousins, had already undergone FGM.
- Ms Maina said the girls were traumatised and would undergo counselling and later be taken to a safe house.
Four girls aged below 12 years are recuperating at the Embu Level Five Hospital after they underwent forced circumcision in Gitugi Village, Embu County.
The girls who are Class Three and Class Four pupils underwent the cut on Friday last week.
