Gynaecologist ‘mutilated his virgin wife’s vagina with scissors because he was unable to have sex with her on their honeymoon’
- The 54-year-old doctor is being tried in Germany
A gynecologist accused of mutilating his virgin wife’s vagina after he was unable to have sex with her on their honeymoon is on trial in Germany.
The 54-year-old doctor and his 35-year-old wife had only recently married before traveling to a luxury hotel in Dubai in April 2019.
But once in the hotel room he failed to have sex with her, and in a furious rage he allegedly blamed her and decided to ‘operate’ to solve the problem himself.
He allegedly took a pair of scissors and pierced his terrified wife’s hymen and cut away part of it.
The Braunschweig District Court in Lower Saxony, Germany, was told that his wife had kept the brutal attack secret because her husband had threatened to divorce her and because of the risk of being ostracized by their families.
The 54-year-old doctor allegedly took a pair of scissors and pierced his terrified wife’s hymen, cutting away part of it (File Photo)
The gynecologist and his wife both come from migrant families, but were born in Germany.
She told police she kept it a secret for four years before finally deciding to reveal details of the horrific attack to police.
Prosecutors have charged the doctor with female genital mutilation and grievous bodily harm.
The trial starts on November 6.
It comes as a woman was found guilty of assisting the female genital mutilation of a three-year-old British girl during a trip to Kenya, becoming the first person to be convicted in England for committing the crime abroad.
In a landmark case, Amina Noor, 39, was convicted by jurors at the Old Bailey yesterday morning of assisting in the gruesome procedure during a trip to the African country in 2006.
The verdict was welcomed by prosecutors, who said the case will “hopefully encourage potential victims and survivors of FGM to come forward, knowing that they will be supported.”
The court heard Noor took the little girl by tuk-tuk to a ‘clinic’ where she was asked to wait outside a private home while the child was mutilated.
Her crime only came to light years later, in November 2018, when the victim, then 16, told her English teacher what had happened.