2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
An American woman who was held hostage by the Taliban with her husband and three children, all born in captivity, revealed details of the brutal treatment they were subjected to during their five years of kidnapping.
Pakistan last month released American Caitlan Coleman and her husband, Canadian Joshua Boyle, along with their three children.
The couple was kidnapped in 2012 while traveling in Afghanistan and was held by the Haqqani network, which has ties to the Taliban.
Coleman said in an interview with ABC News that she was beaten and sexually assaulted, sometimes as a result of trying to protect her children from their captors.
The Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, native said that "some of the guards actually hated children" and were looking for reasons like "she was making a lot of noise" to hit the older boy, sometimes even with a stick. When she tried to intervene to avoid these attacks on the children, the guards turned their attention to her.
She said that, on one occasion, they broke several fingers for defending her children, of which she is very proud. Coleman also accused the guards of causing a "forced abortion." She suspects that an alleged poison put in her food caused her to lose the girl she was expecting.
When she tried to report her suspicions to the superiors of the guards, two militants raped her while her daughter was in the room.
"One day they entered the cell, and they dragged my husband out, dragging him, and one of the guards threw me on the ground, hit me and shouted: 'I will kill you,'" she said. "That was when the assault occurred. It was with two men. There was also a third at the door. And then the animals didn't even return my clothes.”
Despite the circumstances, the couple decided to have more children while they were in captivity. Something that caused surprise once they were released.
"I think it says a lot about the state of affairs in the world when a family is asked to justify their decision to have children in any circumstance," Boyle said in response to those criticisms.
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