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When she was woken up by her mother last Wednesday to attend an “important ceremony” in Sowe village of Elgeyo Marakwet County, Mercy Chemutai (not her real name), did not think the day would end with a brush with death.
The eleven-year-old girl was forced to undergo the outlawed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) together with her two sisters aged 13 and 15, then bled for several hours before a Good Samaritan took her to hospital.
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