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RSS FeedsJoshua Boyle lashes out at kidnappers after returning to Canada
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

14 october 2017 08:17:57

 
Joshua Boyle lashes out at kidnappers after returning to Canada
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Rescued hostage Joshua Boyle lashed out at his kidnappers, calling for the Afghan government to track down those members of the Haqqani network who raped his wife, Caitlan Coleman, and ordered “the murder of my infant daughter.”He made the statement to journalists gathered at Pearson International Airport just hours after landing in Toronto. His hands shook as he read the script he had carefully written in a small notebook.While Boyle did not take questions, his comments confirmed what the couple had darkly hinted at in the letters home and “proof-of-life” videos his captors released during their five years in captivity.Coleman said in one video that her children had seen her “defiled.” Boyle suggested cryptically in a letter that Coleman had a forced abortion.While he spoke to the press, the rest of his family was loaded into an RCMP van — with baby seats bought by Boyle’s mother already installed — and preparing to drive to their Smith Falls, Ont., home. Read more: What we know about the rescue of Canadian Joshua Boyle and his family in PakistanJoshua’s parents, Linda and Patrick Boyle, along with Boyle’s three sisters, who had brought their nephews cellophane balloons with Canadian flags, had a chance to meet the young couple and the children privately in a small room inside the airport shortly after they landed.Boyle told journalists that one of his children had required medical attention during this time.It is hard to fathom the shock Friday must have been for the children — Jonah, Noah and Grace — who know no other life than being held hostage. Just the plane rides from Islamabad to London to Toronto would have been one of the many firsts they will now experience.Their arrival in Toronto ended a five-year-long kidnapping ordeal that has captured international attention.But even before their plane touched down, questions already had been raised.What were the exact circumstances of ...


 
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