Sarina: Proving ‘Purity’

You will be able toHow should a professional respond when forced marriage, virginity testing and family pressure intersect?

Enter the case

Case opening

What do you know?

Sarina describes being taken to a clinic where a doctor said he would check whether she was ‘pure’. She says she begged him to stop and was then told surgery could make her ‘pure again’ and a certificate could be provided to a groom’s family.

First decision

Choose before opening the debrief.

Treat the account as automatically proving every legal elementSeparate what Sarina reports from inference; identify immediate support and safeguarding needs and check the applicable lawContact the clinic for its explanation before safeguarding actionAsk her family whether the procedure was agreed

Record your rationale: what is known, reported, inferred, assumed or unknown?

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