Man, Woman Charged in Genital Mutilation Case
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In what officials said was the first prosecution under a 1995 federal law, FBI agents arrested a man and woman from Canyon Country on Friday on charges of conspiring to perform genital mutilations on two girls.
Todd Cameron Bertrang, 41, and his companion, Robyn Faulkinbury, 24, face possible five-year prison terms if convicted of violating the Female Genital Mutilation Act, which prohibits the circumcision of girls under 18 unless performed by a licensed physician and only if necessary for the patient’s health.
Bertrang allegedly boasted to an undercover FBI agent that he had performed more female circumcisions than “probably anyone in the Western world,” according to an investigator’s affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.
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