Melody Demetria Onyonyor, 35, of La Grange, Georgia has been arrested and is charged with second degree child cruelty and female genital mutilation; also known as female circumcision
Melody Onyonyor is being held in Troup County jail, awaiting her first court appearance. The judge will decide then whether she is to have bond set or not.
Melody Onyonyor: Woman Charged With Female Genital Mutilation Of Infant Daughter ( Video )
For reasons not clear at this time, the 10 month old infant daughter of Melody Demetria Onyonyor was in the temporary custody of her natural father when one of his relative’s noticed that the baby appeared to have been circumcised. The infant was immediately taken to Children’s Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia for examination.
Doctors concluded that the baby’s clitoris had been surgically removed.
Onyonyor was arrested after Department of Family and Children’s Services notified the Troup County Sheriff’s Office about the gruesome case.
Female circumcision is a procedure involving the total or partial removal of any external female genitalia. It’s generally performed without anesthesia in less civilized countries as part of a cultural or religious beliefs.
According to survivors of such female genital mutilation, it is extremely painful. I have no doubt they are correct!
So why would a mother do this to her child? Is it her culture?
My problem with that is while yes, people that come to our country legally have a right to embrace their beliefs, they do not have the right to mutilate their child in any way, shape or form. How could she not be aware that we do not condone such treatment in the USA?
We do not even know if it was religious, cultural or just plain meanness that lead Melody Onyonyor to allegedly play doctor with her child’s life, but we want to make sure it never happens again!
If not for the father of the infant, and his relatives stepping forward, who knows what else this little one would have had to endure?
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See video below for more on this grotesque story.
March 13th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
I am disgusted at the fact that this women did this, i am equally disgusted with the fact that little boys are routinely mutilated legally in this country. More people should see the sexism in the United States and everyone should end circumcision on both genders. Enough is enough. And yes my anger stems from the fact that i was mutilated or “circumcised” at birth. Its not any ones decision but my own and the option should not have been given.
March 13th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
These people, what ya gonna do? we, the average taxpayer, are still paying the price for importing cheap plantation labor 200 years later. I wonder what percentage of our gnp is spent dealing with these continuing problems. How much does it affect our schools, our jails, our health care, our social services, welfare, etc amoong those that continue to unacculturate. I dont think there is any other way to interpret this.
March 15th, 2010 at 12:13 am
Yes, some parents seem to think they own their children and can cut off parts of the genitals be it female or male. And also here in our civilized? society we do this and done usually without anesthesia according to AGOG’s last convention in San Francisco. Parents can not give true consent either when they do not know the functions and type of skin removed. Would parents still be circumcising males if they knew it removes 65%-85% of the sexual receptors, half of the penile skin that he needs to grow into, that it kills brain cells because the cells atrophy and die from no longer receiving nueral impulses from the foreskin which is the not just the wrapper but the candy. Then we have the function of the dartos muscle that pon erection creates a one piece skin tube where any action on the shaft gets transferred to the erogenous ridged band which through its loop to the erogenous frenulum transfers this action on the frenulum eliciting an orgasmic response. No action is wasted. But the ridged bans always gets cut off along with part to ALL the frenulum. Action here is wasted and must be directly on the frenulum if any left. Done to male or female, it is all bad to any degree and must be stopped. Supporting MGMbill dot org supports equality of the sexes. Currently Massachusetts has had a hearing to this and will decide 3/17/10
March 15th, 2010 at 12:23 am
The PAIN of circumcision as Nelson Mandela said of his circumcision was blinding white light of electrical fire that ran throughout all his veins.
http://bit.ly/mMoZR 3,928 island villagers males&females all ages forced circ’d into Islam by Muslim clerics
http://bit.ly/ZDEfA Imagine having penile wounding that must be torn apart everyday for a year.
http://www.pjnews.org/?p=4064 Zulu #circumcision decree criticised: (pain of circ.=) I never even saw the knife. You just black out.
http://bit.ly/yQm0i ‘Circumcision can lead to mental illness’ 2008
http://tinyurl.com/yfl54cu Brain Visualization Research during Male Infant Circumcision by Dr. Paul D. Tinari Ph.D.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:33 am
i had to laugh, reading the following:
“Female circumcision is a procedure involving the total or partial
removal of any external female genitalia. It’s generally performed
without anesthesia in less civilized countries as part of a cultural
or religious beliefs.”
blue cross blue shield covered clitoridectomies until 1977 and FGM
was only outlawed in the US in 1994. it happened to me. i’ve
met other women who also were circumcised by the medical machine.
“cultural or religious beliefs” – another laugh. we have a strong cultural and religious belief that we need to cut off the foreskins of male infants… or children who are ‘different’.
do we americans not see our own blindness?
August 29th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
It is a shame that the US penalizes female circumcision while at the same time legalizing male circumcision. Jews practice male circumcision, so its alright. Muslims practice female circumcision, so its not. Its simple as that.
I am a happily circumcised Muslim woman, and I can tell you its really great. I chose to have it done as an adult when I found my clitoris was having recurrent infections and was giving out a bad smell which my husband found irritating whenever we indulged in oral sex. The woman doctor who did it simply took off the hood (clitoral prepuce)in a very minor operation known as hoodectomy. I’m totally satisfied with the result. No more smells and irritations and my sex life too has improved.
This procedure known as hoodectomy is exactly what is stressed in my religion – to trim the prepuce of the clitoris and nothing more.