DETROIT- The father of a 7-year-old Minnesota girl who reportedly came to Michigan in February to undergo genital mutilation was aware of the trip and had texted his wife while she was in Detroit, but now regrets his daughter’s visit after criminal charges.

“(He) told the Child Protection investigator that if they knew what would come of it, this never would have happened,” according to the Free Press, authorities said in a child protection services petition filed in Hennepin County, Minn.

“[The father] knew about where they were because [his wife] texted him,” the petition reads.

It also reveals more details about a case that has put two doctors and a woman in jail on genital mutilation charges connected to two Minnesota girls.

The petition said one of the children told a child protection investigator that she and her friend “got cake after” the procedure “because the doctor said they were doing good.”

The girl also said there were three people in the clinic and that “the doctor made her cry.”

The parents have not been charged and Minnesota authorities only briefly removed the girls from their homes, but now they are back with their parents.

“This is a very difficult situation,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told the Free press. “This is the kind of conduct that should not be imposed on little kids. The parents, simply, should know better.”