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Female Genital Mutilation has been banned in the United States since 1996. Yet some immigrant families want to continue the ritual of marking their daughters' chastity. So Doug Diekema, a pediatrician, devised a symbolic reenactment of the brutal surgery, applying a harmless pinprick to the hood of a girl's clitoris, a so-called "ritual nick." The American Academy of Pediatrics initially approved the procedure as a culturally sensitive gesture but later retracted because "it had caused too much confusion and controversy." Without recourse to the ritual nick, some parents are taking their daughters back to their ethnic homelands to undergo the vicious full-blown female castration. ABC's in-house physician Richard Besser filed a detailed Investigation.
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