Tailor kidnapped and mutilated - warning by slavers?

Date: 140809
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Mos Eisley

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Today Mos Eisley saw another case of gruesome violence related to organized crime. Jo Castin, a tailor from Rori visting the town, was entering Chalmun's through the backdoor when she was suddenly shot down by an armored woman known to be working for a local slaver organisation. The hapless tailor was bound and dragged out into a speeder by her assailant and a tall, winged lizard - a small dragon pet by some reports - and the group drove off into the desert.

What happened afterwards can only be guessed at, but a few hours later a traveler named Fox brought the bleeding, unconscious and near death Miss Castin to the Mos Eisley Med Center. As he explained he had been driving in his speeder when he hit a ditch and got thrown off. On that occasion he discovered the bleeding and mutilated tailor in the ditch and managed to stabilize her long enough to reach the med center.

The doctor treating her stated that Jo Castin had her legs and arms brutally broken, her tongue cut out and left on her body, and her belly cut open, then was left in the ditch eposed to the suns. She almsot died from shock, blood loss and extreme dehydration. In the med center her tongue was sewed back on and her other wounds treated, but while she is expected to survive her ordeal she cannot speak or move according to the latest information.

Anonymous sources claim that Miss Castin had recently been the victim of threats by slavers after she denounced their actions in strong words. This attack is likely to be a warning to the unfortunate victim and others, as shown by the cruel joke that the attackers left their victim with a comm link in reach after making sure she was unable to use it. The identity of the slavers is not yet known, but the armored woman is familiar to residents in Mos Eisley and was said to have been involved in several other slaver attacks, such as those reported on Holonews earlier this week.