Teenage girls are dying like this every day. Now finally, we have a conviction.

This little girl should never have died. But a landmark ruling now means her death may not be in vain.

Sohair al-Bata’a was just 13 years old when she died a senseless and barbaric death.

The little girl, known as “Soo Soo”, passed away in 2013 during a female genital mutilation (FGM) procedure after suffering a horrific a “sharp drop in blood pressure resulting from shock trauma”, according to The Huffington Post’s translation of a report by Egyptian site Al Masry Al Youm.

And now, in a monumental win for women’s rights, the man responsible for her death — a doctor called Dr Rasdlan Fadl — has finally been convicted.

Dr Fadl performed the procedure in a small village northeast of Cairo after Soo Soo’s parents, froma small farming community on the outskirts of Mansoura, took her to him.

When the little girl died, Dr Fadl denied responsibility — claiming he had simply been removing a wart and that al-Bata had died from an allergic reaction to penicillin, according to The Huffington Post. Al Masry reports the doctor then offered the family 20,000 Egyptian pounds to keep quiet about the incident, the girl’s uncle Mohammed al-Bata’a alleged.

In a landmark case for Egypt, , which had never before seen someone prosecuted over the controversial practice, Dr Fadl was charged with manslaughter.

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But Dr  Fadl was acquitted in November, dashing women’s rights activist’s hopes.

Then, finally, justice was finally served this week after the verdict was appealed:

Dr Fadl was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in jail , the BBC reports. He was also sentenced to three months for performing FGM.

Soo Soo’s father was also given a three month suspended sentence for taking his daughter to see the doctor.

“This is a monumental victory for women and girls in Egypt – the first ever FGM trial in a country with the highest number of affected women globally,” a representative for Equality Now said.

“The country has shown that it will implement its laws and we hope that this is the first step towards ending this extreme form of violence against women once and for all.”

FGM, also known as female circumcision, involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia and  is practiced by both Christian and Muslim families in Egypt, even though it was outlawed in the country in 2007 following the death of another 12-year-old girl, according to The Guardian.

The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women, but can cause a range of health problems ranging from infertility to problems urinating, severe bleeding, cysts, infection and complications in childbirth.