{"id":1404,"date":"2017-09-14T11:42:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T10:42:05","slug":"police-are-determined-to-bring-countrys-first-prosecution-for-female-genital-mutilation-as-they-launch-campaign-to-protect-children-coming-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/police-are-determined-to-bring-countrys-first-prosecution-for-female-genital-mutilation-as-they-launch-campaign-to-protect-children-coming-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Police are &#8216;determined&#8217; to bring country&#8217;s first prosecution for female genital mutilation as they launch campaign to protect children coming from abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police are targeting Eurostar terminals to protect children from female genital mutilation (FGM) as officers say they are &#8216;absolutely determined&#8217; to obtain the first successful prosecution for the crime since it was outlawed over 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Inspector Allen Davis, from Scotland Yard&#8217;s sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command, said it was &#8216;really important&#8217; to show the practice, made illegal in 1985, is not tolerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A police operation to protect children from practices including FGM, forced marriage, breast ironing and child abuse linked to beliefs focused on Eurostar terminal in London and Kent today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Difficulties getting people to report FGM and testify against family members is one of a &#8216;number of reasons&#8217; nobody has yet been convicted, Mr Davis said at St Pancras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We are absolutely determined to obtain a successful prosecution,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4877470\/FGM-campaign-aims-protect-children-coming-abroad.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are targeting Eurostar terminals to protect children from female genital mutilation (FGM) as officers say they are &#8216;absolutely determined&#8217; to obtain the first successful prosecution for the crime since it was outlawed over 30 years ago. Inspector Allen Davis, from Scotland Yard&#8217;s sexual offences, exploitation and child abuse command, said it was &#8216;really important&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}