{"id":1438,"date":"2017-11-23T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2017-11-23T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:27:54","slug":"fgm-risk-sheffield-woman-and-child-must-stay-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/fgm-risk-sheffield-woman-and-child-must-stay-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;FGM risk&#8217; Sheffield woman and child must stay in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A woman and child have been banned from travelling abroad, to avoid the risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Sheffield Family Court gave police the go-ahead to issue FGM protection orders to protect &#8220;a victim and a potential victim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A total of eight FGM protection orders have been granted to South Yorkshire Police since they were introduced in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the two had been identified during an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The orders allow police to &#8220;prevent them from being taken out of the UK and into a situation where they could be at greater risk&#8221;, a South Yorkshire Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>FGM, also termed female circumcision, is illegal in the UK and carries a sentence of up to 14 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The term refers to any procedure that alters or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Det Sgt Suzanne Jackson, of South Yorkshire Police, said: &#8220;The effectiveness of these orders has enabled us to safeguard victims and potential victims, and further prevent the detrimental and devastating long-term effect they could and may have been subjected to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-south-yorkshire-42030739<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman and child have been banned from travelling abroad, to avoid the risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). On Thursday, Sheffield Family Court gave police the go-ahead to issue FGM protection orders to protect &#8220;a victim and a potential victim&#8221;. A total of eight FGM protection orders have been granted to South Yorkshire Police [&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-1438","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\/1438","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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}