Doctor, wife in genital cutting case win bond, placed on house arrest, with tethers

[demmiblue]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Against the wishes of the government, a judge today granted bond to a doctor and his wife as they await trial in a historic genital mutilation case.

The prosecution argued that the defendants should remain locked up, claiming they are both flight risks and a danger to the community given their alleged crimes: Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, of Farmington Hills, is accused of letting another doctor use his clinic to perform genital cutting procedures on two 7-year-old Minnesota girls; his wife, Farida Attar, 50, is accused of holding the girls' hands during the procedure to keep them from squirming and to calm them.

Defense lawyers have claimed the Attars did not engage in any criminal act, and that the procedure at issue is a protected religious rite-of-passage that involved no cutting. They also argued the Attars are not a danger to the society and have no reason or desire to flee, convincing U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman to release them on bond.

Friedman, who stressed that he believes the case involves "serious" charges, issued the following conditions in granting bond to the defendants:

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[Ligyron]

1. "...involved no cutting."?

That's not how that works.

[mopinko]

7. either way it is bad.

ridiculous assertion, but even if true- what were they doing to those girls? something that involved their genitalia, and required hand holding and comforting.
a sex crime at the least. not much of a defense.

[Ligyron]

8. Absolutely.

Who the fuck ever came up with this cruel and barbaric practice in the first place?

Seriously.

It takes a twisted mind to dream this type of shit up.

[leftynyc]

2. They should both die in prison

for what they did to young girls.

[Alice11111]

3. Or worse!

[progree]

4. "holding the girls' hands during the procedure to keep them from squirming and to calm them"

Yeah, I bet that's all it takes to calm them

[dalton99a]

5. They need to rot in jail

[not fooled]

6. This is why there should be

separation of church and state, always. Something the American fundies would like to forget. Condemning women to die from backalley abortions because your sky god told you to do x, y, z--same underlying problem.

[forgotmylogin]

9. They are awaiting trial.

And they are "tethered"? Which I think means ankle bracelets. So they aren't going anywhere. There's no real need to stick them in a cell for months and pay room and board while they await trial.