{"id":1101,"date":"2016-03-29T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T10:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:05:26","slug":"british-girls-as-young-as-10-face-harm-from-breast-ironing-with-stones-heated-on-hot-coals-in-ritual-imported-from-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/british-girls-as-young-as-10-face-harm-from-breast-ironing-with-stones-heated-on-hot-coals-in-ritual-imported-from-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"British girls as young as 10 face harm from breast ironing with stones heated on hot coals in ritual imported from west Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 1,000 British girls face harm from the ‘abhorrent’ practice of breast ironing, ministers have warned.<\/p>\n

In the brutal procedure, hot objects [stones, a hammer or a spatula] are used to pound and beat girls’ breasts to stop them growing in the belief it makes them less desirable and discourages premarital pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Breast ironing originated in Cameroon, where it affects as many as one in four.<\/p>\n

It also takes place in Nigeria, Benin and Chad. This week Jake Berry, the Conservative MP for Rossendale & Darwen, said he was shocked to learn girls in west African communities in Birmingham and London were victims too.<\/p>\n

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It is very difficult to spot as most of the perpetrators were the victims’ own mothers.<\/p>\n

Mr Berry used freedom of information requests to show how little is known about the practice among child protection professions and the police.<\/p>\n

A quarter of children’s services department had not been trained to look for signs, while one in seven police forces had never heard of it.<\/p>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3510492\/British-girls-young-10-face-harm-breast-ironing-stones-heated-hot-coals-ritual-imported-west-Africa.html#ixzz44HoXQg00<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around 1,000 British girls face harm from the ‘abhorrent’ practice of breast ironing, ministers have warned. In the brutal procedure, hot objects [stones, a hammer or a spatula] are used to pound and beat girls’ breasts to stop them growing in the belief it makes them less desirable and discourages premarital pregnancy. Breast ironing originated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[405,4,406,407],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-breast-ironing","tag-halo-project","tag-hot-objects","tag-west-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}