Amsterdam, Sep 3 (DPA) A Dutch man faces a possible six years' imprisonment for having allegedly performed a domestic circumcision on his own daughter, a court in Netherlands heard Thursday.

The public prosecutor at the court in Haarlem, north of Amsterdam, requested the sentence against Moroccan-born Mustapha el-Meddioui, 30, for allegedly circumcising his five-year old daughter.

The accused has dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality.

The prosecution requested the sentence saying that the girl has been permanently mutilated.

The accused was arrested last year after the girl told her foster mother that her father 'put scissors' in her genitals.