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Woman freed from Taliban captivity in Pakistan details brutality
[DAWN] A US mother held hostage by Taliban...Arabic for students... -linked holy warriors for five years has detailed the violence and sexual assault she said she endured in captivity, and regretted that her young son was also beaten. "This was an intolerable situation for a child to be in," Caitlan Coleman Boyle, 31, told ABC News in a television interview broadcast on Monday. Coleman Boyle gave birth to three children in captivity. She and her Canadian husband were kidnapped by the Haqqani network  while travelling through a remote area of Afghanistan ‐ for reasons that remain unclear ‐ in 2012.The family were released last month in Pakistain and are now trying to rebuild their lives in Canada. She said their guards "could be very violent, even sometimes with the children," assaulting their now four-year-old son with a stick, and hitting her and her husband. "I would get beaten or hit or thrown on the ground," she told ABC News. She broke a cheekbone and three fingers while intervening to protect the children, her husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, told ABC. They made toys out of bottle caps and bits of cardboard, and fearing the family could be beheaded, they made up a game based on England’s Charles I, who was executed in 1649, and Oliver Cromwell, she said. "Obviously with people like this, the idea of a beheading is always on the table, so he certainly knew that this type of thing could happen to his family but then we would come up with games to make it not seem so scary," she said. "He had great fun pretending to be Oliver Cromwell and chasing Charles I around and trying to behead him," she said. "We made it a game so that he wasn’t afraid." Posted by: Fred 2017-11-22 |
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