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		</div><p>Social workers fear the baby daughter of a west African diplomat based in England could be subjected to genital mutilation.</p>
<p>A family court judge has made the youngster the subject of a female genital mutilation (FGM) protection order.</p>
<p>Mr Justice Keehan analysed preliminary issues at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Monday, and is due to consider more evidence next month.<br />
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The judge ruled that neither the girl, who is less than a year old, nor her parents could be identified.</p>
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<p>He heard that the youngster’s mother had raised concerns and he said the local authority which had applied for the protection order was the London Borough of Southwark.</p>
<p>Barrister Zimran Samuel, who represented Southwark Council, outlined details to Mr Justice Keehan.<br />
Samuel said the girl’s mother had been subjected to FGM as a child.</p>
<p>He said she feared that family members would take the girl abroad and subject her to FGM, and that the girl’s father would “fail to prevent” it.</p>
<p>He said the woman was “understandably very anxious”.<br />
The diplomat insisted that he posed no risk to his daughter.<br />
He told Mr Justice Keehan that he abhorred FGM.</p>
<p>“I have absolutely nothing to do with this,” he said.<br />
“I would emphasise that I have absolutely no intention of taking the child anywhere. I love my daughter.”</p>
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