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“She thinks she has behaved like a good Djiboutian mother and doesn’t understand why they are spoiling her daily life.”
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Jurors and judges ruled: The law takes precedence over tradition. In Le Mans, a mother was sentenced to five years suspended prison for having her three eldest daughters circumcised during trips to Djibouti. Sociologist Isabelle Gillette-Faye, a specialist in female genital mutilation, sheds light on the significance of this trial.
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Isabelle Gillette-Faye, found the mother “very credible because she says she understood that circumcision is prohibited by law”. The sociologist has another explanation for the defendant’s mindset: “I think she remains convinced that it’s a religious necessity (the mother is of Muslim faith, ed.) and that she doesn’t understand why she’s being prevented from doing it.” It remains to be noted that the mother has had four other children since 2015. “She has not harmed any of them, girls or boys. So she seems to have understood the ban, but not the reason why,” Isabelle Gillette-Faye analyses.
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The shame is all the more bitter for the mother because she will now be under supervision to prevent her from starting to lay hands on her younger children again, and social pedagogical care will probably be imposed on her older children.TV5 Monde