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Women handed three years for abetting FGM in Samburu

Veronica Lengerasi (right) and Janet Lenolkulal (centre) in the dock at the Maralal Law Courts on Thursday 10, 2022. The duo was handed a three-year jail term after they were found guilty of subjecting a 13-year old girl to FGM.

Photo credit: Geoffrey Ondieki

Two women in Samburu were on Thursday handed a three-year prison sentence each for forcing a 13-year-old girl to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM).

A Maralal court found Janet Lenolkulal and Veronica Lengurasi guilty of performing the illegal procedure.