On March 28, 2003, a Muslim gas-station clerk from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, named Khalid Adem was arrested and charged for aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Gwinnett County prosecutors alleged that in 2001 Adem had used a pair of scissors to remove the Clitoris of his two-year-old daughter in the kitchen of the Duluth apartment Adem shared with his wife, Fortunate. During the trial Adem's wife Fortunate testified: "He said he wanted to preserve her virginity ... He said it was the will of God. I became angry in my mind. I thought he was crazy.".