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Daughter enslaved – police arrest suspicious parents
Investigators have arrested suspected parents who are said to have enslaved their daughter. photo
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A couple is said to have physically and verbally abused their own 14-year-old daughter – and promised her against their will to a stranger in marriage for money. Now they have been arrested.
Investigators in Rome have arrested a Bosnian couple on suspicion of having enslaved their own daughter. The 14-year-old was physically and verbally abused, starved and had to beg in front of a supermarket, the Italian police said in Rome on Sunday. In addition, she was promised against her will to a stranger for money in marriage. The suspected man (41) was imprisoned and his 36-year-old wife was placed under house arrest.
According to the authorities, the minor reported the case herself in October. She appeared spontaneously at a police station and reported in tears about the crimes she had experienced over the years. After her report, she was immediately placed in a protective facility.