Joshua Boyle, 34, appeared for less than five minutes at the hearing from an Ottawa detention center, wearing an orange jumpsuit and sporting a wispy beard. The other charges include issuing death threats, causing a person to consume a “noxious” substance thought to be an anti-depressant, and of misleading the police. A court order prevented publication of the identities of his alleged victims. Upon his arrival in Toronto two days later, Boyle accused his captors of raping his wife and killing his baby daughter, a fourth child – allegations swiftly refuted by the Taliban’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid. A month later, Coleman also spoke of a sexual “assault” by two of her captors in an interview with ABC News.

Source: The Express Tribune January 04, 2018 10:18 UTC