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The state is filming girls' abdomen

• Police have been driving girls for 3 years for genital check without asking parents. Girls' abdomen is videotaped in new circumcision controls. From 1. January the scheme will be extended. Norway's foremost expert is critical for every general practitioner to have a gender examination.

• Little girls' abdomen is videotaped in conjunction with controls to reveal circumcision. If parents do not voluntarily join the genital examination, the children may be coerced.





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So far this year, the genitals of at least 10 underage girls have been videotaped at the Children's Clinic at Ullevål University Hospital. This despite strong protests against the filming from Norway's foremost circumcision expert, the senior Sverre Sand at the Women's Clinic, which is located in the same house. Sand's protests have been overrun by the Directorate of Health.

New Time can today quote a letter from the Directorate of Health 12. June, which states that it is now planned to film young girls' abdomen to document whether genital mutilation has occurred:

"It is not desirable to get into a situation where at a given time negative findings are found, and one at a later stage considers that circumcision has been performed. Then it will be concluded that genital mutilation has happened in the meantime and prosecution may be applicable. Documentation of anatomical conditions in video shall ensure that the comparison of findings at different times can be made with high certainty. ”

It appears that the pictures and survey results "about the child will be recorded in the child's journal in accordance with the rules in the regulations on patient records."

Ullevål University Hospital started abdominal checks on children in 2007. According to pediatrician Torkild Aas at the hospital's pediatric clinic, so far this year, at least 10 girls have been examined and videotaped. Since 2007 he has examined a total of 31 girls, of which 6 were found to be genital mutilation. Thus, 85 per cent of the forced examinations had not been circumcised.

As a result of the 31 forced child welfare-directed investigations, Aas has experienced, among other things, a 9-year-old girl with a constriction of the back of the genital opening. Nevertheless, none of the children could be documented to have been circumcised after coming to Norway, which would have been a criminal offense.

Aas believes it is crucial with an early genital examination after the girl has arrived in Norway.

- I myself have put pressure on the Norwegian Directorate of Health to get early genital exams, to have a comparative basis at a later date. Otherwise, it becomes pointless to conduct the survey, because the parents will only claim that the circumcision took place before they moved to Norway, says Aas.

In a presentation he gave at an interdisciplinary conference at the County Governor in Oslo and Akershus on September 24, "Circumcision-genital mutilation, third-line perspectives", it appears that the police can order an examination of a child, without contacting the parents first. Here is an example of two girls aged 3 and 5 with an African background, who the police drove directly to a forced gender survey – without informing parents in advance:

"Report from the Police Child Welfare Service that it is feared that two African sisters will be taken out of the country for FGM (Genital Mutilation Journal). Police are ordering investigation. They have did not contact the family before, but escorts them directly to ensure that the possibility of investigation is not played. " (highlighted by Ullevål univ.syk., journ. note)

From 1 January 2010, so-called voluntary abdominal examinations must be nationwide ..

Bente Moe, case officer in the Norwegian Directorate of Health, claims when Ny Tid calls that so-called voluntary examinations should not be documented on film.

- An examination requested by the child welfare service comes after suspicion of genital mutilation, and must be documented on film. Voluntary examinations are something completely different, and should only have a preventive effect. Girls who participate in a voluntary survey should not be filmed, says Moe.

In the notice of invitation as Ny Tid was able to present in the previous issue, it nevertheless appears that parents who fail to use the voluntary survey can be reported to the child welfare service.

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