There have been 1,030 new cases of female genital mutilation discovered in England alone between January and March 2018, according to NHS data.
The report into FGM showed London was the worst affected, with 425 newly recorded incidents, followed by the North of England, with 275, the Midlands has 195 and the South of England has 110 – there were clearly a few cases where no fixed address could be given.
The overwhelming majority of recorded victims hail from East Africa and Western Africa.
Broken down across the UK, according to regional media, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of new cases of FGM in the last year.
In Bristol, for example, there were 200 new cases seen by the NHS.
But the concern is that it seems to be happening everywhere – there have been reports of new cases in Plymouth, Norfolk, Romford, Bracknell Forest, Blackburn…the list goes on…
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