- The parents are also suspected of arranging the marriage of the young woman with a stranger in exchange for money.

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A couple arrested in Rome for enslaving and arranging the marriage of their 14-year-old daughter

A couple has been arrested in Rome on charges of enslaving and inflicting serious bodily harm on their 14-year-old daughter, who was forced for years, with physical violence, to do household chores and beg near a supermarket.

The parents, of Bosnian nationality, are also suspected of arranging the marriage of the young woman with a stranger in exchange for money, despite the refusal of the girl, who recounted what happened to investigators after appearing at a police station last October.

The minor, who tried to take her own life several times, was then transferred to a child protection center, where she still remains, while last Sunday the 41-year-old father was arrested, and the 36-year-old mother was placed under arrest domiciliary.

According to the investigating judge in Rome who is handling the case, they are "violent and prevaricating personalities, determined to obtain economic sources to satisfy their personal needs by begging for their daughter."

The purpose of the violent attacks was "to keep her in a state of submission to exploit her begging," wrote the magistrate in the order that ordered the precautionary measures.

And "in the face of the minor's confidences with the teachers, far from showing signs of resilience, they did not hesitate to hit her with the obvious objective of avoiding the intervention of social services and the police."

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