Female Genital Mutilation, now Breast Ironing young girls.

Dreadful. The health damage must be appalling. All these barbarians are to stop girls being attacked by horrible men and boys so why not strap them up from a young age? They are the perpetrators not the poor girls.

Jingle

That's the point it isn't illegal practice in the UK, yet. It is happening in the UK.

I dislike petitions as a rule but were there a current petition it would be one I would most certainly sign up to. All political parties should find the will to work together to make it illegal in the UK sooner rather than later and the government should take action, just as they should do over FGM which saw the law updated in the Serious Crime Act 2015.

There must be the will to stop this barbarity. I worry there is so little attention over this matter .

As far as I can see there is no specific law against FGM; and I guess this is the same with this latest piece of barbarism. Presumably this is already covered by the laws that cover grievous bodily hard etc. Load of bloody loonies - makes you despair.

I read about it a few weeks ago and couldn't believe what I was reading! It's just appalling, and must do a tremendous amount of damage to the development of young girls? I don't quite know what to say except that in the UK it must be extremely illegal and can hopefully be eradicated.

I don't think we do "put up with it". Surely it would be child abuse, which is already very illegal!

Yes I have heard of it, probably in Woman's Hour or similar a good few years ago. I agree, disgusting. It's strange these cultures don't chop bits off the men to protect girls.