Article: Author criticises Government for delays on female circumcision.(News)

Ministers are failing to act to prevent young girls being circumcised, Labour peer and crime writer Ruth Rendell said today.

The long-term campaigner against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) spoke out as the police prepared to announce a new initiative against it later this week.

She said it would not be classified "not as a quaint custom but as child cruelty, as child abuse, because that's what it is".

"Even if it may be committed ...

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