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BREAST IRONING NEEDED IN SCHOOL Breast ironing awareness should be made part of the mandatory school curriculum to protect young girls from abuse, the National Education Union has said. The practice involves ironing a girl's chest with hot objects to delay breasts from growing, so she does not attract male attention. Conservative MP Nicky Morgan said teachers must also be educated, as they have a "very important role to play". The Home Office said teachers have a duty to report concerns. 'Not allowed to cry' "Kinaya" - whose name we have changed - lives in the UK. Her family descends from west Africa - where breast ironing originates - and she was subjected to it aged 10. She said her mother told her that "if I don't I iron them, men will start coming to you, to have sex with you". It is often the child's mother who will undertake the breast ironing, which usually involves heating a stone or spoon on a flame then pressing, ...