Circus sisters forced to perform with piranhas and snakes

· Trafficked Bulgarians enslaved by Italian owners
· Police shut down show after injuries to teenagers

Three men running what has been dubbed in Italy as "The Circus of Horrors" were arrested and charged with people trafficking and keeping the two Bulgarian sisters and their parents in slavery

the Marino circus, consisting of a tatty tent and 200 plastic chairs which toured the Campania region south of Naples

The girls and their parents, who arrived illegally from Bulgaria in January, had been promised wages of €500 a week, but were paid 100, with the remainder retained to allegedly pay off the smugglers who had brought them to Italy

After working 15-20 hour days setting up the show and performing, the family were forced to sleep in a cockroach-infested truck in "inhumane" conditions

The family said they were given beatings when they complained

suffered from a snake bite

severe bruising from where a snake had coiled itself around her