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

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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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