Posted on 10/01/2009 11:45:52 AM PDT by Steelfish
Elizabeth Smart Says She Was Raped Daily
Elizabeth Smart, right, arrives at the federal courthouse with her mother, Lois Smart, and her father [Pic in URL]
By JENNIFER DOBNER SALT LAKE CITY – Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday she was raped repeatedly each day after she was abducted from her bedroom seven years ago and told she would be killed if she yelled or tried to escape.
She described Brian David Mitchell, her alleged kidnapper, as "evil, wicked, manipulative, stinky, slimy, selfish, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God."
Smart testified in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City as part of a competency proceeding for the man charged in her 2002 kidnapping.
Mitchell has twice been found incompetent for trial in state court. Mitchell and his estranged wife were found with Smart nine months after she disappeared from her Salt Lake City home.
A judge ruled earlier this week that testimony from Smart, now 21, is relevant to the mental competency of Mitchell, who was removed from the courtroom before Smart arrived and taken to a holding cell where he could listen to the proceedings.
Smart was poised and composed while testifying for just under two hours.
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No, whe was 14 and it happened more than once. /*sarcasm
Generally one struggles on until one is in one’s late 30s or 40s.
Then the mind’s ability to repress things deteriorates and one relives it and suicides, overdoses, or goes through therapy.
Early therapy can head this off.
There are dozens of support resources on the internet now, from big organizations like RAINN to small sites like Pandora’s Aquarium and After Silence.
On him, I would pull the switch myself.
Nah, it was “consensual”, because after he’d kidnapped her, tied her up, forced her to take drugs, and told her he’d kill her family if she resisted, she didn’t resist. < /s>
Just one bullet for both!
Excellently stated. She’s very fortunate to have a wonderful family.
Very plain and accurate language. Most of this type of honesty is complete rejected by liberals when it is directed at real criminals.
The ACLU and those who make excuses for them are all guilty for making it easier for animals like the one described, to abduct, rape and if need be, murder the innocent.
Whenever I hear or read someone say, "but the ACLU does some good things", it makes me know that is a ignorant and evil person who ignores the great evil they do.
Pull the switch?...nope, I would gladly beat him to death with my bare hands...
They’ll have to execute his psychiatric protectors first.
They need to execute this guy, the ‘father” in Austria and the guy in CA who abducted that other girl. These men are evil vermin. Polanski needs 10 to 15 years in state prison in the general population.
This animal should be castrated. In public. One slice an hour, every hour. With a dull butter knife.
Not even close really.
That comment was not a bit funny or appropriate.
Me too! That is exactly how it unfolded. What a blessed moment and a shocking one at that. Even in its memory it gives me great hope, inspiration, and joy. That was truly an authentic breaking news reaction from Sean. His reaction spoke for us all.
Preceded by a Roman pre-crucifixion scourging followed by a salt water washdown.
She’s lovely... like a princess. God bless her.
I have to concur - to compare what Obozo is doing to our pocketbooks to what these disgusting people did to this poor girl over a long period of time and on a daily basis is completely inappropriate. Step 1 = engage brain; step 2 = use better discretion prior to typing comment.
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