Italian police on Monday arrested four
people, three women and a man, on suspicion of beating a
17-year-old girl and threatening her life in order to force her
to continue working as a prostitute at Andria in Puglia.
The girl had tried to rebel against the prostitution gang
telling them she wanted to pull out of the business, police
said.
The four reacted by abducting the girl, beating her so that she
suffered an eye injury that required hospital treatment, and
issuing death threats against her, the girl told police back in
May when she was still a minor.
The four have now been arrested on charges of kidnapping,
robbery, grievous bodily harm, attempted extortion and illegal
weapons possession, police said Monday.
The three woman are prostitutes and the man a pimp, police said.
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