Father Of Family Held Hostage By Taliban Arrested For Sexual Assault And Unlawful Confinement

Something has always rubbed be the wrong way about these people.

A couple went backpacking in AFGHANISTAN when the wife was PREGNANT. Genius move right there. They also decided to have more kids while under Taliban captivity because they “always wanted a big family” and didn’t want to run out of time. They’ve since converted to Islam.

SOMETHING ISN’T ADDING UP HERE. It’s all too freaking weird.

Well… Joshua Boyle has been arrested… and it’s not pretty.

According to this:

Ex-hostage, Joshua Boyle, who was recently freed from captivity in Afghanistan with his wife and children, has been arrested on 15 charges, including sexual assault.

Boyle, of Canada, his American wife Caitlan, and their three children were rescued last October in Pakistan, five years after the couple was abducted by a Taliban-linked militant group while on a backpacking trip in neighboring Afghanistan.

The children – 2- and 4-year-old boys and an infant daughter – were all born in captivity.

Authorities said the charges against the 34-year-old include eight counts of assault, two accounts of sexual assault and two counts of unlawful confinement.

Boyle was reportedly charged with one count of causing someone to ‘take a noxious thing, namely Trazodone,’ an antidepressant, court documents indicated Tuesday.

There is also a charge of uttering a death threat and a charge of misleading a police officer.

The purported acts allegedly occurred between October 14 – the day after the family returned to Canada – and December 30.

Wonderful. Surely SoyBoy Trudeau will send him an edible fruit arrangement in prison.

His wife has released the following statement:

In a statement to the Toronto Star, Boyle’s wife wrote: ‘I can’t speak about the specific charges, but I can say that ultimately it is the strain and trauma he was forced to endure for so many years and the effects that that had on his mental state that is most culpable for this.’

‘Obviously, he is responsible for his own actions,’ she added, ‘but it is with compassion and forgiveness that I say I hope help and healing can be found for him. As to the rest of us, myself and the children, we are healthy and holding up as well as we can.

Sorry, but he was psycho before this.

During their captivity, the couple claimed that their guards forced Caitlan to undergo an abortion and even raped her. The group has denied the accusation of sexual assault and the forced abortion, going on to say that Caitlan suffered a miscarriage.

He also told the AP that he and his wife decided to have children even while held captive because they always planned to have a big family.

‘We’re sitting as hostages with a lot of time on our hands,’ Boyle said. ‘We always wanted as many as possible, and we didn’t want to waste time. Cait’s in her 30s, the clock is ticking.’

Boyle said then that their three children were 4, 2 and ‘somewhere around 6 months’.

‘Honestly we’ve always planned to have a family of 5, 10, 12 children… We’re Irish, haha,’ he wrote in an email in October.

The parents of Caitlan Boyle, who is from Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, said after the rescue that they were elated she had been freed, but they also expressed anger at their son-in law for taking their pregnant daughter to Afghanistan.

Riiiiiight.

And it gets fishier…

Boyle was once briefly married to Zaynab Khadr, the older sister of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr and the daughter of a senior al-Qaida financier who had contacts with Osama bin Laden.

The Canadian-born Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured by US troops following a firefight and was taken to the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

Officials had discounted any link between that background and Boyle’s capture, with one describing it in 2014 as a ‘horrible coincidence’.

Uh huh. Yeah. Ok.

This guy was formerly married to a woman with obvious terrorist links. Then he took his second, PREGNANT wife “backpacking” in Afghanistan.

Nothing to see here, totally normal.