FGM: mother and retired nurse both found guilty of mutilating two sisters

A retired nurse and the mother of two young girls have each been found guilty of carrying out female genital mutilation in Australia’s first prosecution of an FGM case.

The mother and the nurse, who was referred to as KM, were both found guilty of carrying out FGM on each sister between 2009 and 2012 by a jury in the NSW supreme court on Thursday.

Another defendant, Shabbir Mohammedbhai Vaziri, a spiritual leader in the Dawoodi Bohra Shia Muslim sect, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact by attempting to help cover up the FGM after police began investigating.

The FGM had been carried out on the sisters, now aged 10 and 12, when they were each about seven years old.