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Fear, Prestige Pushing Kenyan Girls Into FGM — and Out of School

It was during her first year of high school in rural western Kenya that Mary Kuket says she was "sacrificed to tradition" and her dreams of becoming a doctor shattered forever. With no explanation, the 15-year-old was given away to another family, who forced her to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), then married her off to their middle-aged son. "I kept asking my parents why I was being taken and begged them not to send me away, but my father pushed me away, saying...


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