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1. Why, I wondered, so I went to the link
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 10:20 PM
Jan 2019

The perpetrators, usually mothers, consider it a traditional measure which protects girls from unwanted male attention, sexual harassment and rape. Medical experts and victims regard it as child abuse which could lead to physical and psychological scars, infections, inability to breastfeed, deformities and breast cancer.

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