Circus Slavery Arrests Made in Rome

In Rome, Italian police broke up a circus that makes you wonder about our progress as a species. The circus entertained Italians by having teenage girls swimming with piranhas and fending off snakes.

Reuters is reporting that one 19-year-old Bulgarian girl was forced to swim with flesh-eating piranhas in a transparent tank while her 16-year-old sister was forced into a container where the circus staff tossed snakes at her. The younger sister was injury by one of the snakes. The circus originated in Naples.

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Please are treating this as a slavery case. The girls were paid around $150 per week and were forced to sleep in a trailer that was previously used to transport animals.