FBI agents leave the office of Dr. Fakhruddin Attar in Livonia, Mich., on Friday after completing a search for documents. Genital mutilation, outlawed in the United States, is the removal of all or part of a female’s genitals for nonmedical reasons. Nagarwala and Fakhruddin Attar, 53, are also charged with giving false statements to a federal agent. Nagarwala has maintained through her defense lawyer that she performed a religious procedure involving removing the girls’ genital membrane and giving it to relatives for burial. Outside the courthouse, defense attorney Mary Chartier said Fakhruddin Attar was not in the examination room with Nagarwala and the girls, the Associated Press reported.

Source: Washington Post April 27, 2017 08:52 UTC