Former Stepdaughter of Elizabeth Smart's Kidnapper Admits She Was Sexually Abused

Today Show ^ | March 14, 2003 | Katie Couic and Matt Lauer

[ewing]

Said that she was abused when she was 8 to 12 years old by the degenerate scumbag.

No transcript on the MSNBC site yet.

[ewing]

I hope he requests the firing squad.

[evolved_rage]

I hope he gets raped in prison for few years first!

[Partisan Hack]

Breaking on Greta: Emmanuel is going to represent himself!

[Mulder]

If true, then there is nothing wrong with the bastard that can't be fixed by 12 jurors, a tall tree, and a short piece of rope.

[ewing]

This ought to be good..

[ewing]

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[Fred Mertz]

The machine is in the demonization phase. Don't ask me why, but I don't believe this story.

I think they're trying to take the limelight away from young adult Elizabeth.

[ewing]

The machine is in action because the Salt Lake PD won't tell us why they screwed up for 9 months when the Mitchells were blocks away.

[Partisan Hack]

I hope he requests the firing squad.

This one is no slam dunk. His defence will be that she went willingly.

As to "brainwashing" and "programming," the defence will argue that in the aftermath, she didn't need to be de-programmed. In 48 hours we've had harp recitals, fashion shows, birthday parties, etc.... Why isn't this girl sequestered with a team of professionals?

[ladyjane]

the Salt Lake PD won't tell us why they screwed up for 9 months

There is something weird about this case.

[Illbay]

I hear many people make this statement. But I was unaware that rape, even rape of a child, was a capital offense in any state.

Not that it SHOULDN'T be, mind you, but I don't think that it is.

[Partisan Hack]

The SLPD thought the Smarts were kooks.

[ewing]

That doesn't jibe with Mitchell telling Mary Catherine that he was going to kill her in the bedroom that night.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

"curiouser, and curiouser"... Alice in Wonderland

[ewing]

This case is a major FUBAR by both the FBI and the Salt Lake PD and they know it.

[Partisan Hack]

That doesn't jibe with Mitchell telling Mary Catherine that he was going to kill her in the bedroom that night.

Staged.

[Mulder]

The machine is in the demonization phase.

Could be.... it seems like nowadays, if you want the truth simply take the inverse of what the press/politicians/police say.

[Partisan Hack]

This case is a major FUBAR by both the FBI and the Salt Lake PD and they know it.

Agreed.

[ewing]

Now the question is, will Mitchell say that Elizabeth is still his wife in court?

[BCrago66]

I know it may be "insensitive" to say it, but who cares?

I do care that thousands of people in America each years are mudered, raped, etc., but I don't see the utility of gawking at the true-crime details of each molestation, the way trashy magazines used to a few decades ago, and the way the major media does in today's strange world.