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From the Equality Now: 2006 Annual Report (.pdf):

On 1 November 2006, a Georgia court found an Ethiopian man accused of subjecting
his 2-year-old daughter to FGM guilty of cruelty to children and aggravated battery
in the first FGM trial in the United States. Khalid Adem received a 15-year sentence,
10 years in confinement and 5 years of probation. In 2003, when news of the case first
surfaced, Equality Now organized a meeting in Atlanta for African anti-FGM activists,
grantees of its Fund for Grassroots Activism to End FGM, with local organizers in
African immigrant communities in Georgia to strategize collectively for outreach to
end the underground practice in the US. Subsequent to the meeting and follow-up
advocacy, Georgia passed a law prohibiting FGM in 2005.