her mother tortured her so that she "does not attract attention"

The girl was 13 years old when her own mother subjected her to violent torture so as not to attract men's attention.

Simone is a young woman from the UK who at the age of 13 has suffered torture with the "ironing of bads". An abuse disguised as a technique that his own mother exerted on her daughter. In order to prevent the hormonal development of the girl to attract the attention of men. This type of abuse is part of the culture, but has had a tremendous impact on the world. The practice comes from West Africa Onein recent years, it has spread to some countries in Europe. Even from the United Kingdom, ask for awareness-raising courses on the subject, explained the journalist of the BBC Amber Haque

In this country, nearly a thousand women and girls have been victims of this "punishment". Who is executed with hot stones to "protect them from the attention of men". A victim named Simone said on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show that her mother was hoping to make her "ugly" so that "no one will admire her".

"It's really an abuse, it's dehumanizing you, you're not a human being, they're holding your hands and then leaning against your chest, it really hurts." Imagine a burning object in your naked body and when you come out, you have a line that you can tie in your chest, sometimes you have trouble breathing. ", revealed in his heartbreaking testimony to the UK. She even suffered long-term damage: now, as a mother of a child, she can no longer badfeed to be abused.

Kinaya is another victim who spoke for the TV show. He was a victim of violence at the age of ten. His mother told him that, otherwise, "men would begin to approach to have bad. "You are not even allowed to scream. If she does, she would have shamed her family, she is not a strong girl "He pointed between tears.

As a result of these episodes, the UK's National Union of Education called for this procedure to be included in school curricula to protect girls from abuse. This proposal was even supported by Conservative MP Nicky Morgan. For her part, Leyla Hussein, a British activist, said she had spoken to five women from her North London clinic who had undergone the procedure.

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