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A man has been cleared of arranging female genital mutilation on his daughter when she was nine.
The defendant, a 50-year-old solicitor who cannot be named for legal reasons, was accused of beating his children and organising for FGM to be carried out on his daughter on two occasions. At the trial at the Old Bailey in London he denied the charges against him and said he had never threatened to have his daughter cut.
He was accused of twice arranging for someone to go to the family’s home in south London to cut the child with a razor.
During an interview in July last year, the daughter, now 16, said she had been subjected to the practice twice between 2010 and 2013.