# \[Doctor charged with FGM- edited title ITD\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412 "2017-04-13T21:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/1 "2017-04-13T21:42:28Z")
A Detroit ER doctor [has been arrested](http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/04/13/doctor-charged-genital-mutilation/100416734/) for performing clitorectomies on young girls. She should be sentenced [to the pain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes?item=qt0549959). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/2 "2017-04-13T21:50:33Z")
I was expecting this to be random. According to the story, it was arranged by the girl’ parents. > [@](#): > > Agents reviewed records for the Minnesota phone and learned from cell tower data that the phone was near motels in Farmington Hills on Feb. 3 before being returned to Minnesota the next day. > > Hotel records helped show two families, each with a young girl, stayed at the hotel on Feb. 3. Surveillance video from the unnamed hotel show two adult women and two girls checking into the hotel. > > Seven days later, an FBI child forensic interviewer talked to one of the girls, who said she was brought to Detroit with a second girl for a “special girls’ trip,” according to the FBI. > > After arriving in Farmington Hills, the girls were taken to a doctor because “their tummies hurt.” > > “While at the doctor’s office, a procedure ‘to get the germs out,’” was performed on the first girl, according to the criminal complaint. The girl was shown a photo of Nagarwala and said she was the doctor who performed the procedure, according to the FBI. > > The girl told the FBI that Nagarwala “pinched” her on the “place (where) she goes pee,’” the government alleges. > > “(The girl) said that she was told not to talk about the procedure,” FBI Special Agent Kevin Swanson wrote in the complaint. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/3 "2017-04-13T22:50:08Z")
This happened local to me. I hate the world sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/4 "2017-04-13T22:51:27Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I hate the world sometimes. Agreed. I’d make one small addition: I hate the world sometimes, I hate people often. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/5 "2017-04-13T23:10:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Agreed. I’d make one small addition: I hate the world sometimes, I hate people often. I don’t hate people… better to say I hate the darker aspects of human nature. This dumbshit doctor probably had the same thing done to her, and believed she was in the right, and so on. And the parents no doubt believed they were doing what was best for those poor girls. This is local enough that the org I work for could have done the exam. Our sexual assault forensic clinic just opened to pediatric cases. I don’t know if it did, and could neither confirm nor deny any such thing, just the fact that it happened in my backyard is particularly disheartening. And hat’s off to the forensic nurses who deal with that horror day in and day out. Question for the legal eagles: would this be prosecuted as sexual assault? How might the parents be charged? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/6 "2017-04-13T23:12:10Z")
Well, I could try reading the damned article. Apparently genital mutilation is common enough to be a specific crime. Lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/7 "2017-04-13T23:13:54Z")
Is it really necessary to make fun of this tragedy via the thread title? ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/8 "2017-04-14T00:42:45Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Is it really necessary to make fun of this tragedy via the thread title? +1 :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/9 "2017-04-14T00:58:57Z")
Yes, I have to agree that I find the thread title offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/10 "2017-04-14T01:00:56Z")
Well, even as a joke it doesn’t make a lot of sense. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/11 "2017-04-14T01:41:24Z")
Yeah, I thought this was going to be a complaint about a woman getting “preferential” treatment from the justice system. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/12 "2017-04-14T11:26:14Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Well, even as a joke it doesn’t make a lot of sense. It is, of course, a play on the famous OJ glove defense. (No apology forthcoming.) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/13 "2017-04-14T12:36:03Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > It is, of course, a play on the famous OJ glove defense. Which also implies that she’s not guilty of anything. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/14 "2017-04-14T13:00:11Z")
And thus, a story of actual importance was turned into a classless punchline. Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/15 "2017-04-14T13:10:41Z")
I took the _story_ and the incident seriously, which is why I posted it. But I also have gallows humor about just about everything. For those bothered by that, I can only offer a very sincere “suck it up, buttercup.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/16 "2017-04-14T13:37:28Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Which also implies that she’s not guilty of anything. Right, that’s why I found it confusing. I’m still interested in knowing what the parents can be charged with. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/17 "2017-04-14T13:52:48Z")
Aiding and abetting would be my WAG. Throw her in a pit with snakes and spiders and leave her there. The fact that a woman did this to little girls makes me furious. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/18 "2017-04-14T14:01:17Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Right, that’s why I found it confusing. > > I’m still interested in knowing what the parents can be charged with. [Wiki.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation_in_the_United_States) > [@](#): > > Performing FGM on anyone under the age of 18 became illegal in the U.S. in 1997 with the\*\* Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act.\*\* As of 2015, **24 US states have specific laws against FGM. States that do not have such laws may use other general statutes, such as assault, battery or child abuse.** Supported by Equality Now, the Transport for Female Genital Mutilation Act was passed in January 2013, and prohibits knowingly transporting a girl out of the U.S. for the purpose of undergoing FGM. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/19 "2017-04-14T14:23:26Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Right, that’s why I found it confusing. > > I’m still interested in knowing what the parents can be charged with. The doctor was charged with under two laws: (1) [18 U.S. Code § 116 - Female genital mutilation](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/116) (2)[18 U.S. Code § 2423 - Transportation of minors (a)Transportation With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity.](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2423) Here is what the latter says: > [@](#): > > (a)Transportation With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity.— > A person who knowingly transports an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, with intent that the individual engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 10 years or for life. Since no mention has been made of prostitution, the Department of Justice apparently believes that female genital mutilation falls under “sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense.” So. the parents, allegedly, knowingly transported their minor children in interstate commerce to engage in sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412/20 "2017-04-14T14:59:31Z")
Here’s a [depressing article](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/07/female-genital-mutilation-kenya-daughters-fgm)about the practice in Kenya which includes the cutter’s point of view. The ideas behind this are deeply ingrained in the culture. I hope it can change but I can see how there is a good deal of pressure, on the girls, their parents and their prospective bridegrooms to carry on. Education must be the key. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-charged-with-fgm-edited-title-itd/784412.md?page=2)