This girl (for girl she is) is being used in a way which our society (a society made up of people from many different cultures and countries) deems to be legally and morally wrong. To say that such practices are normal in other places is irrelevent. Female circumcision and other forms of mutilation may be normal in other places but that does not make them acceptable. We ignore these things at our peril and at the peril of those who suffer from such practices in a country where they should be safe and protected. Just look at the case of Victoria Climbie. Other peoples cultures should be respected but not to the excusion of the fundimental rules we are all expected to live by in their chosen host country. Ignoring them lets this girl down and hands yet another victory to those of the far right who wish to make polictical capital from this girls misery. At least the parents have picked up the idea of using the ambulance service as a taxi.....so they are going in the right direction to fall in with the great british public in some ways.