2nd doctor, wife charged in female genital mutilation case

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For the second time in a week, authorities have charged a Detroit area doctor with breaking a federal genital mutilation law, this time arresting a suburban physician and his wife for allegedly helping another doctor perform genital cutting on 7-year-old girls in a Livonia clinic. According to a criminal complaint unsealed today, while the doctor removed parts of the girls' genitals, the wife of the clinic owner held the girls' hands "in order to comfort them." -- More...