Bar Code

Bar Codes Dept: Police are calling members of the gang the "bar code pimps.", according to CBC. She had also been whipped, chained to a radiator and had her hair and eyebrows shaved off, the interior ministry said and spanish police have arrested 22 people on suspicion of using violence to force women into prostitution and tattooing them with bar codes as a sign of ownership. Officers freed one 19-year-old woman who had been beaten, held against her will and tattooed with a bar code and an amount of money 2,000 $2,650 which investigators believe was the debt the gang wished to extort before releasing her. Police say the accused were tattooing women on their wrists as a sign of ownership. Spanish Police/Associated Press (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.