A bill that would criminalize female genital mutilation in Maine was struck down this month in Augusta by House Democrats, a development that appears to validate an eye-opening claim made in August by Republican State Representative Heather Sirocki that the practice is already under way in the Pine Tree State.
"I get private Facebook messages from nurses; I get personal conversation from folks, they're telling me what they're seeing in Maine hospitals," Sirocki told Portland's WGME-TV last year.
