A York County native who has been held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for four years appeared in a new video posted online Tuesday, according to an ABC27 report.
Caitlin Coleman 30, of Stewartstown, appeared in the two-and-a-half minute video next to her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle, 33, the report said. It’s the first footage of the couple released since 2014, when Coleman’s parents shared two short video clips of them. The couple was captured while on a trip through Afghanistan in 2012.
In the latest released video, the report said Coleman, dressed in a black dress and head covering said the following in a slow, halting voice, as she looks down at the floor:
« We have been told that the Afghan government has executed some of their prisoners of these men that are holding us, and that our captors are frightened of the idea of further executions and further death, and that because of their fear they are willing to kill us, willing to kill women, to kill children, to kill whomever in order to get these policies reversed or to take revenge. »
Coleman was pregnant when she was captured, and gave birth while in captivity.
Her child would now be somewhere between three and four years old.