Former hostage, from Stewartstown, describes 'double imprisonment' by husband, terrorists

A Stewartstown woman faced "double imprisonment" during her years of captivity in Pakistan, she said in an interview with the Washington Post. She was controlled, she said, by both the Taliban and her husband. 

Caitlan Coleman, now 33, was captured in 2012 along with her husband, Joshua Boyle, now 35, when she was pregnant with their first child. She gave birth to that son and two other children while in captivity. A fourth child was born after she returned to the United States in 2017.

“The whole captivity with the Haqqani network, obviously it was horrible,” she told the Washington Post. “But in my mind, it paled in comparison to what was going on in my personal life.”

Boyle is now facing 19 counts of abuse, including sexual assault and unlawful confinement in his home country of Canada. It was never Coleman's intention to backpack in Afghanistan, she told the Post, but she believes it was her husband's goal all along.

Coleman spent most of her childhood in York County. "So much of my childhood and even 20s were spent in York County, it has shaped me, and my fond memories helped to brighten some of the dark days," Coleman wrote in an email to the York Daily Record 10 days after her release from capture in 2017. 

The Post does not reveal where Coleman is now living with her four children, but she is in the United States.

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