A baseline survey report has revealed that some old women who act as traditional birth attendants tear the clitoris of female newborns with their fingers as a new strategy of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
The report said this practice was done in one of the four districts in three regions surveyed, namely, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba in the Savannah Region, Wa East in the Upper West Region, and Kassena-Nankana West and Pusiga in the Upper East Region.
It was done to babies between the ages of three months to toddlers up to three years to make them think that was how they were created when they grow up.
Dr Mathilda Aberese-Ako, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Science, and Consultant, disclosed this during the commemoration of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM in Accra.
