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?