Judgment, 1988.
The Court ruled that female circumcision is a crime under Article 312 of the French Penal Code, which provides that any person who deliberately attacks or beats a child less than 15 years old, resulting in permanent injury or mutilation, is in violation of the law.  It sentenced the parents of a girl who had died after being circumcised to a suspended three years' prison sentence.
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