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Harrowing video shows moment young girls rescued from Utah doomsday cult

Source: Explore With Us/ YouTube

Newly released video footage shows the harrowing moment police found two young girls hidden inside barrels by a Doomsday cult leader in Utah.

The video, uploaded by the YouTube channel ‘Explore With Us,’ showed the disturbing moment that police discovered the two youngsters inside the barrels back in 2017.

The Iron Countythat on 1 December 2017, they had received court documents from Micha Coltharp that she believed her four biological children were in their county. She told authorities that they had been taken by their father, John Coltharp.

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