'Witch' Hired To Mutilate 3-Year-Old Girl's Genitals, 'Spells' Cast On Police

A woman carried out genital mutilation on her three-year-old daughter and then cast “spells” on police and doctors, an England court heard Wednesday.

The girl’s Ugandan mother and Ghanaian father used a “witch” to carry out the barbaric surgery at a filthy flat in east London in May 2017. The girl was then instructed to tell police that she had injured herself after hitting the cupboard which she had climbed on to get biscuits. The girl, however, told police the surgery was carried out by a woman while her parents pinned her down.

In a call to the police, the mother had said, “It’s a young child, she was trying to get some biscuits and she fell on the metal and it’s ripped her private parts. Oh my god,” the Express Tribune reported.

Prosecutor Caroline Carberry told the court, “The victim later told police that the man and the woman called the other woman a witch, and that they had held her while the witch cut her.”

The parents were charged with carrying out female genital mutilation in August 2018.

Whatsapp conversations between the parents showed they were also planning to cast a "spell" to "silence the police and the doctors.” Spells and other forms of witchcraft including cow tongues were found in the freezer of the house.

“During those communications the woman was instructing the man to create a spell or curse involving a substance called allum which you will hear is used to silence,” she said.

“Two cow tongues, they were bound in wire with nails and a small blunt knife also embedded in them, 40 limes were found and other fruit which when opened contained pieces of paper with names on them. The names embedded included both police officers involved in the investigation of the case, the social worker, and the then director of public prosecutions. These people were to 'shut up' and 'freeze their mouths'. There was a jar with a picture of a social worker in pepper found hidden behind the toilet in the bathroom. Another spell was hidden under the bed,” she added, the Mirror reported.

Carberry added that by the time the girl was taken to Whipps Cross Hospital the same day, she had "lost a significant amount of blood as a result of the injuries they had delivered and inflicted on her." The girl underwent surgery that night, during which doctors "found three separate sites of injury" but "no bruising or swelling" of her genitals. Doctors felt that the girl was probably cut with a scalpel.

“This girl sustained her injures by deliberate cutting with a sharp instrument and the injuries amounted to female genital mutilation,” Carberry added.