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Aug 14 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
My #FGM TORTURE🩸
"My Baby Died Because Of FGM!"
Mrs C Foday Recalls Hers:
"I'm a Nigerian married to a Sierra Leonean man. I refused to be circumcised even in the face of being heavily threatened and publicly mocked by my husband's family and friends.
Then, I became pregnant and ImageImage
in the process of delivery, some #women came to help me but when they opened my wrapper and saw my 'uncut private part', they washed their hands and abandoned me that I and the baby were #cursed!
I was in pain but they showed me no mercy and were about to leave the house when my
mother-in-law told me to give my consent to be circumcised or else I will die with the baby and we will both be thrown into the forest.
I have never seen very heartless people like that - my husband came into the room and ordered the circumcision.
They came back into the room and
one of the women brought out her tools from the bag and squatted before me and said the baby was already coming out.
What did she do?
I was pushing out the baby but the woman pushed back the baby and was more interested in cutting off my clitoris and both labia.
I was suffocating
when she pushed back the baby to cut me!
I still don't know how I survived amid the pain and hatred around me and worst, because of the obstruction of the baby's passage, I eventually pushed him out DEAD!"

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