On arrival in America she was stripped, shackled and imprisoned by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.Įnter Layli Miller Bashir, a young law student, who took on Fauziya's case and fought for her freedom. However, her nightmare was far from over. Hours before the brutal ceremony was to take place, Fauziya escaped and fled to the United States to seek asylum. At the age of seventeen she was forced to marry a man who already had three wives and to prepare for the ritual of female circumcision. But when he died in 1993, her life changed dramatically. Fauziya Kassindja's harrowing story begins in Togo, Africa, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood, shielded by her progressive father from tribal practices.
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