Nine women have been sentenced to jail terms for the female circumcision of around 30 young girls, in what the UN said was the first criminal prosecution of its kind in Ivory Coast.

The women, aged between 46 and 91, were found guilty of "female genital mutilation", or complicity.

They were each sentenced to a year in jail and a $90 fine.

Although UN officials said they did not expect them to serve their sentences due to their age, they welcomed the convictions as an important first step.

“This sentence is the first of its kind in Ivory Coast” and would help to prevent future cases of female circumcision, Patrick Yedress of the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (UNOCI), told AFP at court.

The circumcisions were carried out during a ritual ceremony in the northern town of Katiola in February.

In the past, there were arrests of women who had conducted circumcisions, but the cases were settled without going to court following the intervention of relatives and local communities, said Suzanne Maiga of the United Nations Population Fund.

A national inquiry in 2006 found that female circumcision affected 36% of the female population. A UN study put the figure at 42%.

The practise is particularly prevalent among northern Muslims and animists in the west of the country where up to 80% of females are circumcised despite a 1998 ban and numerous initiatives aimed at eradicating it.

Last year a three-year-old girl from near Katiola died after undergoing the procedure.

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Jul 19, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

Damn, female ccircumcision is mutilation of a worst kind........... they cut/remove the cl!toris......... How is a woman supposed to enjoy herself, they should stop tampering with the pleasure zone.......
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Jul 19, 2012

sh!tFaceSamsung

i wonder gore naa women circum wat does they realy do: particulary to *virginaaah* : or do they cut smal tongue insite *V-G*
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Jul 19, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@sh!tFaceSamsung
LOL.......... Yes they cut the "the small tongue" which is called a CLiTORIS

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Jul 19, 2012

masende

babulala ihlo bayeke lembobo engenamsenzi
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Jul 19, 2012

Mellow

WTF Female Circumcision?! Now this is 1st degree murder

@MsKinky Hahahhaaha this granma's are bloody crazy ek se tampering with with the whooohaaaa zone
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Jul 19, 2012

sh!tFaceSamsung

ok @Mskink mmm cli!toris neh : this is wat they do cut it off completly : does it make major diff especially wen it comes to sexua!-pleasure : cutting off foreskinn of penisss i know it does
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Jul 19, 2012

CYBORICO

sh!tFaceSamsung
i wonder gore naa women circum wat does they realy do: particulary to *virginaaah* : or do they cut smal tongue insite *V-G*

so u chow it withouth knowing its parts? turn on the light and start asking questions man, there'a aclit there and a g spot, there is even female ejaculation which needs extensive knowledge about kuku before it can b achieved
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Jul 19, 2012

sh!tFaceSamsung

CyBORICO
u know wat am gonna do : i wil find a virgin who never went 2circum dis weekend : and wil use my eagle eye to zoom it in : try by al means to check anything around *V-G* ... b4 num-num
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Jul 19, 2012

CYBORICO

@sh!facesamsung

LOL thats the way to go man. after so much laughter i will need a smoke, c u now now, cancer calls

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Jul 19, 2012

golezwa

CYBORICO
sh!tFaceSamsung
i wonder gore naa women circum wat does they realy do: particulary to *virginaaah* : or do they cut smal tongue insite *V-G*

so u chow it withouth knowing its parts? turn on the light and start asking questions man, there'a aclit there and a g spot, there is even female ejaculation which needs extensive knowledge about kuku before it can b achieved
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according to the way i understand it, he does know the part but didnt know what it is being called, hence he said "small tongue", if he didnt know the part he wouldnt even know how it looked like. Now wena can you please tell me where "female ejaculation" situated????
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