Feds Indict Two Doctors In Genital Mutilation Case: Patch PM

METRO DETROIT, MI – A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted three people, including two doctors, alleging they mutilated the genitals of two Minnesota girls earlier this year. Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and his wife, Faida Attar, and Dr. Jumana Nagarwala could face life in prison if convicted. All three defendants are part of a small, Indian-Muslim community known as the Dawoodi Bohra.

According to a complaint recently unsealed in U.S. District Court, the Attars own the clinic Nagarwala is accused of using to perform the procedures on girls as young as 6. Two victims identified in the case against Nagawala traveled across state lines from Minnesota, but federal prosecutors said multiple girls had the procedure as well.

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