Harrowing video shows moment young girls are rescued from Utah doomsday cult

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Newly launched video footage reveals the harrowing second police discovered two younger women hidden inside barrels by a Doomsday cult chief in Utah.

The video, uploaded by the YouTube channel ‘Discover With Us,’ confirmed the disturbing second that police found the 2 kids contained in the barrels again in 2017.

The Iron County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in an announcement on the timethat on 1 December 2017, they’d acquired court docket paperwork from Micha Coltharp that she believed her 4 organic kids have been of their county. She advised authorities that they’d been taken by their father, John Coltharp.

Two kids on the court docket order, Seth and William Coltharp, have been discovered on 4 December 2017 at a distant compound made up of transport containers with a lady known as Catherine Coltharp.

These kids have been taken into police custody, medically checked and interviewed.

Two different kids, Dinah and Hattie, have been regarded as with Samuel Shaffer, who police say referred to himself because the Prophet of the non secular sect Knights of the Crystal Blade.

Police stated that Shaffer had turned over the place of Prophet to John Coltharp and left the compound with the ladies and his personal two organic kids, Lily and Samantha Shaffer, on 3 December 2017.

“It was reported Samuel had spent the earlier night time with all 4 women in a tent on or close to the property,” the press launch stated.

An Amber Alert was issued for Dinah and Hattie, which prompted an individual to report a white man strolling alone on the grime highway a number of miles west of the compound.

Shaffer was situated and arrested earlier than telling police the overall location of the 2 women, reported KUTV.

There the brand new video reveals they discovered Lily and Hattie inside two blue plastic 50-gallon water barrels round 1000 yards from the Coltharp property.

“At the moment, Shaffer acknowledged the kids had been positioned within the water barrels to hide or cover them from being discovered by looking out legislation enforcement,” the police assertion learn.

At this level, police believed the ladies had spent round 24 hours within the barrels in subfreezing temperatures, weren’t correctly dressed and didn’t have meals or water with them.

Shaffer additionally stated that he left a firearm subsequent to the barrels on the bottom.

At first, Shaffer didn’t say the place the opposite two women, Dinah and Samantha, and 20 legislation enforcement brokers looked for them.

After an hour, Shaffer supplied their location they usually have been present in an deserted single-wide cell house unwell, exhibiting indicators of dehydration and appearing torpid.

All 4 women have been taken to hospital, however Samantha needed to be flown to a kids’s hospital on account of her situation.

Investigators acknowledged that Shaffer and Coltharp have been “married” to one another’s daughters, who have been minors, in keeping with studies.

Shaffer was sentenced to a minimal of 26 years in jail in 2018 for first-degree felony rape of a kid and one second-degree felony depend of kid abuse and was later sentenced to fifteen years to life for sodomy, KUTV reported.

Coltharp pled responsible to little one sodomy and little one bigamy and was additionally sentenced to at the very least 26 years in jail, The Deseret Information stated in 2018.

The Unbiased has contacted the Iron County Sheriff’s Workplace for remark.