'Witch' performs genital mutilation on three-year-old girl

Ugandan woman attempts to put a curse on police, medical staff

A Ugandan woman is being tried for casting black magic spells on police and doctors after carrying out genital mutilation on a three-year-old girl, Mail Online reported.

The 37-year-old Ugandan woman, and a Ghanaian man aged 43, allegedly enlisted a 'witch' to help them carry out the surgery at a flat in east London.

They are accused of instructing the victim to tell police and social workers she had fallen and injured herself on the door of a cupboard after she climbed on to a work surface to get biscuits.

But the girl later told police the couple pinned her down while another woman carried out the procedure.

In a series of WhatsApp messages the woman also tried to put a curse on the police and medical staff.

The court hear the girl was taken to Whipps Cross Hospital in Walthamstow, east London, in a cab on August Bank Holiday Monday in 2017.

In an emergency call the woman told operators that "It's a young child, she was trying to get some biscuits and she fell on the metal and its ripped her private parts. Oh my god."

Prosecutor Caroline Carberry, QC told the court today: "[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."

"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 instructed him to put the police and doctors inside a reference to including the names of the police and doctors in the spell or curse."

"This girl sustained her injures by deliberate cutting with a sharp instrument and the injuries amounted to female genital mutilation."

At the hospital the woman said the girl was not wearing any underwear and had landed on a metal strip in the edge of the cupboard door after climbing up to get some biscuits.

The girl was in acute pain and after she underwent surgery that night, the consultant called in the police.