Auburn genital mutilation: Guilty women, sheik fail to show remorse or speak out says judge

Supreme Court Justice suspicion of regret two women convicted of female genital mutilation that said, if it refuses to practice or speak out against the procedure, which is a tradition in their small Muslim sect.

Midwife, Kyubra Gani Magennis, 72, and 39-year-old mother of four girls (known as A2 Court) was convicted by a jury mutilating her two older daughters clitorises junior November last year, becoming the first people in Australia to successfully prosecuted female genitalia mutilation.

Faces a maximum sentence of seven years jail.At Johnson criticized the sentencing hearing Justice psychological evaluation tender barrister Robert Sutherland SC A2 and Wazir said that the impact of the crime she is not directed against a mother and her daughter.

This is basically a report on the influence of the family if the mother goes to jail, no one (daughter) asked, as victims of a crime, what is his attitude toward crime. '

asked Crown prosecutor Nannette Williams that the order named midwife pressure, initially only known as km, which will be raised by his defense attorney Stuart Bouveng country against 'cowardly' the woman's safety risk.The judge later lifted the suppression order, which allows the name of a midwife will disclosed.

Magennis and her husband have been harassed and tender affidavits received threatening phone calls in the last three years.The their religious leader of the Shiite Muslim sect, Dawoodi Bohra, leader Shabbir Mohammedbhai Wazir, who was found guilty of being an accessory after the previous order.

Convict hear today, Justice Peter Johnson fears that all three accused did not deny the practice of female genital mutilation, which is called «khatna», which is traditionally made from a seven-year-old girls.I'm sure you've seen some of them accused say I reject all practices of this nature ... and they're in steps Dawoodi Bohra community to speak out against 'justice Johnson 

During the eight-week experiment jury heard A2 and a half order of Magennis was called «khatna» - in Baulkham Hills in Sydney and Wollongong North West between two separate occasions his daughter in 2009. In October of 2012.

Injuries consisted of a nick or cut the girls clitorises.When police launched an investigation into the practice Wazir said community members told detectives that do not address female genital mutilation.

Tiny Auburn based on sect came to police attention in 2012 when they received notice Dawoodi Bohra reformist member of the Orthodox followers practiced female genital mutilation.The case will return to court later this month.