Man accused of daughter's female genital mutilation 'was doing everything he could to save girls', trial told

The trial of a couple accused of the female genital mutilation (FGM) of their daughter has heard the accused man told gardaí that he was fighting FGM and doing everything he could to save girls.

The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, both pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one count of carrying out an act of FGM on a then one-year-old girl at an address in Dublin on September 16, 2016.