Thread by @thegirdlengr

My #FGM Heartbreak💔
"I Watched My Daughter Suffer!"
Mrs Amburo Recalls It:
"Jamilah was 7 years old when my husband's mom said it was time for her to be infibulated.
I tried to buy time for her to have it done when she was older but my mother-in-law refused.
I knew how torturous

it was to be infibulated because I had mine when I was 6 years old. I can't forget how I almost died from pain when my husband broke me up after I was wedded to him age 14.
I wept through the night before the day of my daughter's infibulation because I knew the pain she will face

and the poor me that couldn't save her.
The next day, I watched as her little hands and legs were pinned down by two women while the cutter began to cut.
Her first scream broke my heart and I ran out in tears as she looked at me and started crying, "Mummy, come! Mummy help me..."

I walked aimlessly outside, only to return shortly to the room to see her legs covered with blood!
My poor baby was foaming in her mouth and she was struggling in pain to free herself from their grip.
I broke down in tears and knelt to beg the cutter to stop but my mother-in-law

told me I was a 'bad mother that wants her daughter to live like a prostitute' - then, she dragged me outside and instructed me not to enter the room again.
I ran to the back of the house and held my mouth to muffle my sobbing as I peeped through the window to see the cutter,

sewing up my daughter's genitals, passing the thread in and out with a needle!
Jamilah was shaking like a convulsive patient but the women still had her pinned down...
I don't want to talk more on how I helplessly watched my girl suffer because it always break my heart.
Jamilah

is 12 years old now but the scene of that day keep haunting me from time to time!
I never wish any mother to witness the circumcision of her daughter(s). let alone to see her get infibulated!"
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