Woman Forced to Swim With Piranhas!
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Police have closed down a circus in southern Italy after a terrified 19-year-old woman was forced to swim in a tank full of piranhas, while her younger sister endured the company of snakes and tarantulas.
The three men accused of running the “circus of horrors” have been arrested and charged with holding the Bulgarian women as slaves.
The circus owner’s daughter told police that a Bulgarian couple and their two daughters, aged 19 and 16, had been held as slaves “in a state of fear” since January and were forced to work 15 to 20 hours a day for $150 a week.
An appalled spectator tipped off the police after seeing the show, in which Giusi, the 19-year-old, tried to escape from the piranha tank “trembling with terror”.
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OMG I can’t believe something like this would happen in the 21st century.
Ok…. were they “slaves” or did they get paid?
In order to prevent something like this from ever happening again. Italian court needs to sentence those 3 men to life with no parole and make their time a hell.
They should be charged with attempted murder besides kidnapping.
Throw them in with the Piranhas, see how THEY do.
I guess those Piranhas are not the meat eating ones, there are two types of Piranhas if you didn’t know. If they were the meat eating Piranhas the girl would be dead. I used to have four of them and they would tear the heck out of the meat when I fed them. I would say the same goes for the snakes and tarantulas. basically what it looks like is the 3 men put the fear of god into them and then paid them, which is about what the minimum wage workers over there make in a week.