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Breast Ironing in young girls

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megan123 Sat 02-Feb-19 15:55:17

Goodness!! I have never heard of this POGS. How dreadful. What is this country coming to that allows this to continue.

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petra Sat 02-Feb-19 14:53:22

POGS
I couldn't have made it any plainer than I did then.
And here we are in 2019 and it's worse.
I would say to anyone who is going to call me a racist:
Why have I spent £1,000s writing to all and sundry when I'm trying to help and defend black girls.

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petra Sat 02-Feb-19 14:44:04

POGS & *EllanVannin
This is why it's got to these numbers in our country.
We can't say anything, we are accused of racism angry
What else is out there?
Go back some years and who knew about FGM and then this came into our knowledge.
Sometimes I wish that I was a complete moron who didn't read or hear about this horror as I feel so helpless sad
It's obvious that money isn't working as it's getting worse, and why is it getting worse: because more and more people who think this is ok are coming into our country.
Bring on the racist slurs, I don't care, it's the truth.

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POGS Sat 02-Feb-19 14:36:53

petra

I remember you were a poster who indeed felt very very strongly about the matter .

www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1225035-Female-Genital-Mutilation-now-Breast-Ironing-young-girls

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EllanVannin Sat 02-Feb-19 14:30:58

I'm heartily sick of this PC country when the likes of mutilation and general barbaric practices are committed.

Who's scared of who here ??

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POGS Sat 02-Feb-19 14:24:48

grannysue

It certainly is horrific and I have been bemused when I have mentioned this how few even GN posters respond .

I can't bear thinking of what some cultures do their children and I fear it is a case of political correctness that stops this barbarism of FGM and Breast Screening from being openly discussed and certainly made illegal with proper prosecutions to say ' NOT IN THE UK'.

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petra Sat 02-Feb-19 14:21:21

POGS
Like you I've been aware of this for years. Both practices are abhorant.
What a coincidence that you have brought this up now as only a couple of days ago I was giving serious consideration to the £1,000s that I have given to combat these heinous crimes but it's not getting any better, it's getting worse ???.

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grannysue05 Sat 02-Feb-19 14:02:02

POGS I have never heard of this before now.
It sounds horrific.

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POGS Sat 02-Feb-19 13:56:58

We have spoken of FGM and Breast Ironing on Gransnet for some time and I started a thread saying this back in 2016 :-

POGS Sun 10-Apr-16 13:08:58

I'm sick to death of reading/listening to news stories of physical abuse of young girls. We all know of Genital Mutilation but am I alone in never heard of BREAST IRONING?

Sky News is running coverage of yet another heinous abuse of young girls who endure ' Breast Ironing ', the pounding and massaging of pubescent girls breasts using 'hard' and ' heated' objects to try and stop breast development or make them disappear. .For goodness sake pure bloody barbarism, yet again. Well done Sky and those raising a voice to make it illegal in the UK.

This is predominantly an African issue, Cameroon but it is happening to young girls in the UK. I was so shocked I looked on google and I was shocked to see so much has been written and known about it. Well known UK newspapers over past years have written about breast ironing ' Where have I been'. I genuinely have not heard of it.

This makes me cry, thinking of my own 9 year old grandchild and the suffering some children and women live with . Why do we put with this in the UK? It must be stopped and as with Female Genital Mutilation the UK must make it clear it will not be tolerated here, it is physical abuse verging on torture. I have put a link up to the Sky News because others are too horrific to view.

news.sky.com/story/1675786/call-for-breast-ironing-to-be-criminal-offence
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May granddaughter is now coming up to 13 and it is being reported that ' BREAST IRONING ' is on the rise in the UK.

Now that there has AT LAST been a criminal case of FGM isn't not time to stop BREAST IRONING in the UK and action taken in the Courts?

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/26/revealed-dozens-of-girls-subjected-to-breast-ironing-in-uk

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