The Michigan horror that I wrote about in April just keeps getting worse.
Operating out of a Livonia clinic, Jumana Fakhruddin Nagarwala abused unknown numbers of little girls. The 7-year-old girl had been told that she was going to Detroit for a “special” girls’ trip. Instead her special trip turned into a nightmare. After the Muslim doctor allegedly mutilated her, she warned the child not to talk about what was done to her.
Since then there have been more arrests including a leader of the Farmington Hills mosque. Jumana's husband is also listed as a mosque leader.
The conspiracy has run since 2005 and may have abused over 100 girls.The defense will be the Islamic religious freedom to mutilate young girls. And there's an interesting new development.
A local mosque was paying a physician to perform female genital mutilation on young girls, an attorney serving as a guardian for the doctor's children alleged in court Tuesday.
Nagarwala's attorney emphatically denied the allegation... Officials at the mosque could not be reached for comment.
On Tuesday, three Bohra children were removed from their homes over allegations that a 14-year-old girl was subjected to a genital cutting procedure. According to attorney Deanna Kelley, who is representing the parents in two such cases, Nagarwala is not the accused doctor in this case.
So far, authorities have identified at least eight alleged genital mutilation victims, including two Minnesota girls and four metro Detroit girls ages 7-11. They live in Troy, West Bloomfield, Farmington Hills and Livonia and are at risk of being placed into foster care if the state strips their parents of their parental rights.
So there is another doctor involved. That means the network may be even larger. And the link to the mosque appears to be stronger than ever before. A US court will confront the problem of whether Islamic violence against women should be a religiously protected practice head on.