I feel like you guys will have fun with this video. (the racist bastards among you that is)
I'm not particularly shocked to be honest. Don't know how active they are these days, but whispers have it that Gypsies here had something similar going. There was a time when you'd see a lot of beggars with physical malformations in my country. Some of the worst I've witnessed consisted of feet literally being twisted the wrong way around. You'd see them as kids, then as adults... Haven't seen one in ages though. Don't know if they died out, or if authorities managed to place them in a caring facility, away from their abusers. Another one of those relics of communism.