i think the most helpful website on information about female circumcision was this one:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/fgm/fgm.htm
as to the question of whether she can still get sick from this, that website said this:
"A World Health Organization report on FGM says,
The immediate physical effects--acute infection, tetanus, bleeding of adjacent organs, shock resulting from violent pain, and hemorrhage--can even cause death. In fact, many such deaths have occurred and continue to occur as a result of this traditional practice.
The lifelong physical and psychological debilities resulting from female genital mutilations are manifold: chronic pelvic infections, keloids, vulval abscesses, sterility, incontinence, depression, anxiety and even psychosis, sexual dysfunction and marital disharmony, and obstetric complications with risk to both the infant or fetus and the mother"
so yes, "chronic pelvic infections" means she can still get infections from this until the day she dies.
this is a crime. not reporting this is a crime. its like not reporting a rape or murder. if your best friend was being molested by his/her parents, you would report that, even if it meant breaking up the family. this is not a religious issue, its about abuse. if child molestation was a common practice of a certain religion, would you still leave it alone because you think it was about 'religious motivation?'
just because its hidden it under the curtain of religion doesn't make it right. its like saying the persecution of "witches," and then the torture and burning of victims alive to 'cleanse the soul,' by old christian authorities was ok because it was all religiously motivated.