Girl, 16, Told Teacher of Genital Mutilation Incident at 3 Years Old, Jury Hears

A woman has gone on trial at the Old Bailey in London accused of assisting the genital mutilation of a three-year-old girl during a trip to Kenya.

Surgical instruments used to perform female genital mutilation on a table in Nairobi, Kenya on May 11, 2017. Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

A 16-year-old girl confided to her teacher she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) at the age of three during a trip to Kenya, a trial has heard.

Amina Noor, 39, went on trial at the Old Bailey on Wednesday accused of assisting a non-UK person to mutilate the girl’s genitalia in 2006.