Daily Mail: Kenyan woman who was locked indoors for six weeks during 'cutting season' to escape female genital mutilation is campaigning to end the practice in rural Africa
“A woman who escaped having 'the cut' in Kenya after being kept housebound for six weeks so she could not be snatched by the village elders has spoken out against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Christine Alfons, now 22, from Kehencha, grew up in a rural village where FGM is regularly practised during what is known as the 'cutting season'.
But after finding out her deceased father had been against FGM, she refused to have the ritual done when she was aged 12, and her mother Martha Alfons, now 41, protected her.”
