A hospital doctor carried out female genital mutilation on a young mother after the birth of her first child in a London hospital, a court has heard .<\/p>\n
Mounting the first prosecution against someone for carrying out FGM in England and Wales, the Crown alleged that Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena, a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Whittington hospital, had mutilated a 24-year-old mother by the manner in which he had sewn her up after childbirth.<\/p>\n
The woman had undergone type 3 FGM \u2013 in which part of the labia are sewn together \u2013 as a child in Africa, and during labour the doctor had made two cuts to her vaginal opening to ensure the safe delivery of her baby. When Dharmasena sewed her up, a midwife warned him that what he had done was illegal. He asked a consultant for advice, and the more senior doctor said it would be \u201cpainful and humiliating\u201d to remove the stitch he had made, and it remained in place, the court heard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the stitching back together by Dr Dharmasena which the prosecution says is an offence under the act,\u201d Kate Bex, prosecuting, told Southwark crown court.<\/p>\n
Dharmasena, 32, is charged alongside another man, Hasan Mohamed, 41, who is accused of aiding and abetting the doctor. Both men deny the charges.<\/p>\n
The doctor, who qualified in 2005, and began specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology in 2008, had been at the Whittington for a month when the events took place in 2012.<\/p>\n
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