Georgia Dad Charged with Circumcising His Daughter
I got wrapped up in some Zero Boss work last night, and haven’t had time today to post my usual round of bad parenting stories. Frankly, I would prefer to be silent due to a lack of material. But the world keeps turning, and mothers and fathers keep inflicting all matters of harm upon their families. Today’s culprit is African national Khalid Adem, who lived with his family in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Adem’s new home is a 7-by-14 prison cell, which is where police threw him on charges that he circumcised his daughter with a pair of scissors.
Adem is from Ethiopia, where female circumcision (read: mutilation and torture) is practiced around the country. The most severe form of this practice is called “infibulation”, where “part or all of the external genitalia is removed and the vaginal opening is narrowed by stitching.” The Adem case is a landmark event, as a gential mutilation case involving African nationals has never been tried in the US before.
Adem’s lawyer maintains that he’s innocent, and that someone else in the family inflicted this torture on his daughter. The daughter, however, told prosecutors that Khalid Adem was the culprit. I’m reserving judgment on this one. Adem and his wife Fortunate are in the middle of a nasty divorce row, so who knows where the truth lies? Let’s wait for the legal system to sort this one out, and then torch the responsible party afterwards.
(Hat tip: Tanya @ My life as a Spaz)
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5 opinions for Georgia Dad Charged with Circumcising His Daughter
The Writing Mother
Oct 27, 2006 at 10:56 pm
That makes me incredibly sick. I cannot even imagine… I just can’t…
Rhea
Oct 28, 2006 at 6:21 am
You’re absolutely right. “Female circumcision” is a euphemism for genital mutilation. It must be stopped, wherever it occurs!
Yowiemommy
Oct 28, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Just one more reason why I’m an “intactivist”…
BREAKING: Khalid Adem Guilty in Female Circumcision Case - from Parents Behaving Badly by Jay Andrew Allen
Nov 1, 2006 at 1:39 pm
[…] This just in from CNN about Khalid Adem, the dad accused of mutilating one of his daughters so as not to bring “shame” on his family. The bastard is guilty, guilty, guilty. Adem could get up to 40 years in prison for the assault. The dad has been insisting that he never did it, and that he considers the custom from his native Ethiopia abhorrent. The jury, it seems, has concluded that he’s full of shit. […]
catsy101
Apr 24, 2008 at 8:06 am
I hope he gets the full 40 years. And I hope while he is jail the other inmates figure out who he is and what he did. I hope that, if scissors cannot be gotten, someone will castrate him with their teeth.
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