Elizabeth Smart Cries Describing Her Abduction And Rape

Posted on Dec 15, 2011 @ 12:00PM

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By Alexis Tereszcuk - Radar Senior Reporter

Elizabeth Smart cried this week while speaking publicly about her harrowing ordeal at the hands of a kidnapper, and RadarOnline.com has the moving video.

The 24-year-old spoke at the Salt Lake City Rotary Club on Tuesday about the night she was kidnapped in 2002 at knifepoint from her home by Brian David Mitchell. She is working with the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and the program RadKIDS that empowers children to protect themselves from danger.

“He went straight from marrying me to raping me. And after that moment I couldn’t feel more worthless and more degraded,” she said as she wiped tears away from her eyes. “It was the worse feeling I could have ever felt.”

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“I don’t want another child to feel like I felt. I don’t want another child to feel worthless,” she said, giving her reason for telling her story.

Watch the video on RadarOnline.com

Describing the terrifying night when she was taken from her room, she said “I kept begging him to let me go – and he wouldn’t listen to me. All I could do was scream ‘No.’ He said, if you ever scream like that again, I will kill you.”

Elizabeth said she was afraid he was going to do that, so asked him for one thing. “I turned to him and said to him if you are going to kill me please do it here so my family can find my remains. And he said, ‘That’s not what I am going to do yet.’”

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She was just 14 at the time she was kidnapped and described how she dealt with the violence. “I think my body just shut down because I couldn’t handle what I was feeling and everything that was happening.”

Elizabeth was found alive nine months later on March 12, 2003, in Sandy, Utah, about 18 miles from her home.

Elizabeth testified against Brian David Mitchell and in May he was sentenced to life in prison.

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I guess I'm the only one who never quite bought her story. Yeah, she was taken and held. Yes, she was traumatized. I always thought, tho, there was more to it. Either way, I hope she goes on to live a good life. She deserves it.

by GingerK
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 8:47pm

WTF is she wearing?

by Piggy
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 8:16pm

we are never free until we forgive....and this girl has been through hell and then some but she has to let go as hard as it is because she is not doing herself any good..those creeps are locked up and she talks about it a lot but she still suffers

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 7:55pm

I know she's a Mormon and all but does she seriously have to dress like a senior citizen? She looks like my Grandma.

by ProfessorChaos
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 6:03pm

I just find it amazing that not only did she survive, she came out on top. What a testament to this girl's character and will, far surpasses that of her abductors.

by mannequin
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 5:11pm

Its understandable that we need to grieve or chew on the pain but we have to throw it behind us and get on with it...what is the big deal with what she is wearing? obviously its the last thing on her mind..leave her be

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 3:19pm

oh F*@%K U and your bu11$h1t.

by harv44
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 5:55pm

How damaged are children who are used for pornography and sex and dont even know what is being done to them until they are older....I hope she heals and puts this behind her the best she can and starts a new life..

by earlybird
Posted Thu, 12/15/2011 - 3:18pm