# Police Investigate Teen's Death and Female Genital Mutilation - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118399245656989969 - Source account: [@Chinasa7v32](https://x.com/Chinasa7v32) - Source language: English - Duration: 3:30 - Published: 2026-11-07 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation) Police! Don't move. Don't move! Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=3) Josie says, "Hands up." Show me your hands. Show me your hands. [0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=5) No, don't shoot. My arm is broken. Hands. No, my arm is broken. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=8) Please. Back up to the car. Please don't shoot. Please, believe me. Get on the car. Get on the car. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=11) Okay, okay, okay. Please don't shoot. Don't move. Okay, okay. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=15) If he moves, shoot him. [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=19) My arm doesn't work. Please, you must believe me. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=21) What's your name? Chukwue. Chukwue Botami. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=24) What'd you do to her, Chukwue? I didn't do anything to her. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=26) That is my wife. That's Nike Botami. Wait, can I touch her? [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=29) No, I'm sorry, you can't. You think I killed her. Yeah, we do. [0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=32) Well, you're wrong. I loved her. How long were you and Nike married? [0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=34) Nine months. She was 15. In New York, it's legal to marry when you are 14. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=37) With consent of a judge. I have the necessary documentation. [0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=40) Well, then how come your name wasn't listed on her visa application? [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=42) I'm not a citizen. I can't sponsor her. Are you going to interrogate me in front of my dead wife? [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=46) Your dead wife is a 15-year-old girl you mutilated. [0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=48) Circumcision was her decision. You didn't force her? You don't know Nike. [0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=51) You can't force her to do anything. Oh, somebody forced her into the river. [0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=54) Here's what I think. You brought a 14-year-old girl over from Nigeria to be your wife. [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=58) After spending a year in America, she decides, "You know, instead of a circumcision, I'd rather have an iPhone." [1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=62) So she tries to bolt, you beat her to death and dump her in the East River. Now, how can I do that? [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=66) My left arm is crippled. Oh, I don't underestimate your right arm. [1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=69) I want an attorney. Fine. But sooner or later, we're gonna find out what happened. [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=72) Mr. Botami, you're free to go. I'm no longer under arrest? [1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=74) No, but don't be surprised if you get home and find us searching the premises. We have a warrant. [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=78) Excuse me, ma'am, you can't do that till our people are done. [1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=81) I must. To honor Nike. Her spirit walks the house until she's buried. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=84) Please take off your shoes. You and Nike were close? [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=87) Like sisters. I'm Amani, Chukwue's cousin. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=89) Can we have some pudding? Not now, sweetie. I'll make some later. [1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=92) Go keep Felix company. They yours? No. Nike and I run a daycare to help with the rent. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=96) Finn, come here. Chukwue make all this? Yes. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=99) He's a craftsman. One-handed? They're really beautiful. [1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=102) Is that Eden's wood oak? No, this is all African savanna. [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=105) I'll have CS you take a sample. Hey, what are you doing wearing that T-shirt? [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=108) Let's take that off, baby. Lie or die. That's a hell of a T-shirt. [1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=112) What's your name, little man? Obi. Hey, Obi, where'd you get that T-shirt? From a man. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=116) What man? I don't know. He gave it to me, said it was a present. What did he look like? [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=120) He was big. Did he have a big nose? Funny face? [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=123) How about a tattoo? I don't know. Can I go outside now? [2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=126) Only in the backyard, Obi. I need to tend to the children. [2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=129) Who's telling you to lie? I don't know. You knew the second you saw that shirt. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=133) I'm sorry, I must go. I'm not getting much more out of them. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=135) No, but we will from a guy I know on Adam Clayton Powell. Help me. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=139) Watch out. Stop. Police. Stop what you're doing. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=142) Hey, move away from her. Move away from her now. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=146) You're gonna be okay. I'm not finished. Hey, yo, drop that. Drop it. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=150) You're under arrest. Millions of girls have been circumcised for centuries. [2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=153) Welcome to the 21st century. Mutilation is a classy felony and a federal crime. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=157) It is not a crime. It is a celebration. That girl will be scarred for life. [2:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=161) I am a trained Anamobiri. I am no different from a Jewish Mohel. [2:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=164) Except that female circumcision has been outlawed in nearly every country around the world, including your own. [2:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=169) Now, you're looking at four years per count, and clearly this is not your first time. [2:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=174) Did you perform the circumcision on this girl? [2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=176) I have never seen her before. Well, that's strange, since you're listed as Nike Ell's aunt on her immigration visa. [3:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=182) Why are you asking about this girl? 'Cause she's dead. [3:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=185) We fished her out of the river this morning. [3:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=187) I haven't seen Nike for months. When you performed a circumcision on her. [3:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=190) She wanted it. She said it was time for her to become a woman. [3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=194) She was a child. In this country, 15 years old is a spoiled teenager, but in Nigeria, a 15 year old has lived a lifetime. [3:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=201) When we find all of the other girls you've mutilated- ... you're gonna spend the rest of your life in jail. [3:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=206) The court might show leniency if you help us out. How? [3:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zkDlXE1qKoJT/en/police-investigate-teen-s-death-and-female-genital-mutilation?t=208) Give us Nike's address