Father convicted of female genital mutilation of daughter, aged 1, to appeal conviction and sentence

A father convicted of the female genital mutilation (FGM) of his daughter in the first case of its kind in the nation's history is to appeal his conviction and sentence.

The 37-year-old was sentenced to five-and-a-half years imprisonment by Judge Elma Sheehan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last January. He was also sentenced to three years imprisonment on a count of child cruelty which the judge ordered to run concurrently with the other sentence.