Genitally Mutilated Girls Sent Back to Parents – The Australian
Queensland’s embattled child safety department returned two young girls to their parents despite a doctor finding they had likely been subjected to female genital mutilation.
The Weekend Australian can reveal the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability only “temporarily” removed the girls — both preteens in April 2015 — from their parents for medical testing, after they were flown to Africa, allegedly to undergo the procedure.
Despite a Queensland paediatric specialist examining the girls and finding it was likely they had part of their clitorises removed, the department quickly returned them to the parents.