"A German girl has been rescued by Bosnian police after allegedly being held captive by a couple for eight years during which she was forced to eat pig feed and pull a horse-cart.
A neighbour who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating the girl, now 19, like an animal.
Milenko and Slavojka Marinkovic were arrested at their home in a village in the northwestern Tuzla region after police received the tip-off from neighbour Sead Makalic earlier this month.
"They kept her locked up, neither allowing her contact with other people, nor to go to school," police spokesman Admir Arnautovic told FTV public television. "They subjected her to inhumane treatment and torture."
According to Makalic, the couple were from a "Roma family in which several brothers lived together, often travelling to Germany and Austria.
Gypsies gonna gypsy.
A neighbour who raised the alarm told AFP he witnessed the couple treating the girl, now 19, like an animal.
Milenko and Slavojka Marinkovic were arrested at their home in a village in the northwestern Tuzla region after police received the tip-off from neighbour Sead Makalic earlier this month.
"They kept her locked up, neither allowing her contact with other people, nor to go to school," police spokesman Admir Arnautovic told FTV public television. "They subjected her to inhumane treatment and torture."
According to Makalic, the couple were from a "Roma family in which several brothers lived together, often travelling to Germany and Austria.
Gypsies gonna gypsy.