'It's hidden': Female genital mutilation and the secret shame of Minnesota's Somalis

'It's hidden': Female genital mutilation and the secret shame of Minnesota's Somalis

Female genital mutilation prosecutions remain absent in Minnesota despite federal estimates showing hundreds of thousands of U.S. women and girls are survivors or at risk.

Minnesota Somalis hide female genital mutilation and get away with it in US · American Wire News

Focus on Minnesota found a state lawmaker and survivors of a “hidden” brutality raising concerns as neither prosecutions nor sanctions could be linked to a felony impacting women and girls. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) may have taken himself out of the running to maintain his executive seat amid sweeping, unchecked, multibillion-dollar fraud schemes, but that wasn’t the only crime in his state where accountability appears to be lacking. Home to t…

Minnesota’s Unenforced Law: Female Genital Mutilation Persists in the Shadows of Its Largest Somali Community

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‘It’s hidden’: Female genital mutilation and the secret shame of Minnesota’s Somalis

Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's large Somali population.