Paris - A Paris court has handed down an eight-year jail sentence to an African woman accused of circumcising some 50 young girls and lesser terms to some of their parents, France Info radio reported yesterday.
After 10 hours of deliberations, the court passed sentences ranging from three years suspended to two years in prison for 26 parents whose girls were genitally mutilated by Hawa Greou, a Malian woman, the report said. The parents were tried as accomplices in the ritual mutilation of 48 girls.