Elizabeth Smart tells rapist after nine years: ‘I have a wonderful life now’

Two life sentences for Brian Mitchell, man who put the 14-year-old girl through ‘nine months of psychological hell’ For nine months, Elizabeth Smart was the victim. There was little she could do but succumb after she was snatched from her bed at knifepoint as a 14-year-old in 2002, kept tied to a tree like an animal and raped repeatedly by a religious fanatic after what he claimed was a wedding ceremony. But a very different Smart was finally able to confront her kidnapper, Brian Mitchell, in court as he was sentenced to two life sentences for the abduction and rapes that stunned a country not unused to violent crime. “I don’t have very much to say to you. I

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