A Swiss court has found the Somali-born parents of a teenage girl guilty of arranging the removal of their daughter's clitoris.
It is the first time a Swiss court has ruled on female circumcision performed in the country.
The court in Zurich handed the parents each a two-year suspended prison sentence and ordered them to pay their daughter compensation to be determined later.
The ruling Thursday said the couple hired a fellow Somali to perform the procedure on their kitchen table when the girl was 2 years old.
The case came to light last year when the girl was 13.
The U.N. estimates 7,000 women in Switzerland have been subjected to circumcision in some form. Most of the circumcisions were performed elsewhere.
