Update: Conviction in Genital Mutilation Case

Man Convicted in Daughter' Circumcision
Khalid Adem could be sentenced up to 40 years for his conviction of aggregated battery and cruelty to children charges.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

A jury in Atlanta found a man guilty for what human rights activists call the genital mutilation of his daughter. Khalid Adem could be sentenced up to 40 years for his conviction of aggregated battery and cruelty to children charges, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Wednesday.
Adem, 31, cried after the verdict was read, the newspaper reported. A sentencing date has not been scheduled.

Authorities say Adem, 31, circumcised his daughter in 2001 when the girl was 2; the mother reported it in 2003, the Journal-Constitution said. Health and human rights activists call the procedure female genital mutilation.

During the trial, Adem claimed his ex-wife and the maternal grandmother circumcised the girl, now 7, the Journal-Constitution said.

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