La Tribune reported Wednesday that a daycare worker in the Quebec City region discovered while changing a girl's diaper that her clitoris had been removed — a practice that since 1997 has been recognized in Canada's Criminal Code as a form of aggravated assault
Quebec's human rights commission is investigating reports that the province's youth protection services failed to act on a suspected case of child genital mutilation.
"The investigation aims to verify whether the alleged facts are true and if the rights of the child have been respected," the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse said in a news release. "Its goal is also to ensure that measures are taken so that such a situation does not happen again."
Questioned in the legislature about the case, junior health minister Lionel Carmant assured the opposition that there would be a review about the way child abuse is reported to authorities. Carmant said he had called the national director of the province's child protection services.
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