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For the first time, Elizabeth Smart took the stand and gave testimony this morning to a Salt Lake City courtroom in Brian David Mitchell’s competency hearing. Smart disappeared in 2002 and was found about nine months later on the streets of Salt Lake City. Warning: the testimony is sexually graphic.
Brian David Mitchell was removed from the courtroom for singing. Elizabeth told the press later that she asked him to watch her testimony, so he was placed in a room with a TV.
Elizabeth Smart said that she was kidnapped from her bed by Brian David Mitchell and held at knife point at around 2 am. He took her to a campground a few miles from her home where his wife was and told her to change and bathe, then he performed a marriage ceremony for himself and Smart, and after that he raped her.
He bolted her to a cable and two trees and she could move about 20 feet between the trees. She stated that he raped her 3 or 4 times a day and that his dominant focus was sex. She said that he gave her drugs or alcohol to lower her resistance, and he showed her pornography. He used religion to justify his behavior. She called him crude and vulgar, and said that at times he would shout or sing.
Smart said that at times, Wanda his wife would get upset with her and he would stop for a brief time from raping her, but there wasn’t an actual 24-hour period he wasn't able to rape me. She said that there were times when she was able to say no to him because of Wanda and it felt "wonderful.
She said that Brian David Mitchell thought of himself as the king, and that was doing the lord’s work.
See part II of the testimony here
Transcript from the Salt Lake Tribune
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Comments
My ex husband carried on with exactly the same fantasies that we see in these two kidnapping cases, including the intense focus on sex and crude behavior, being god's servant, hearing voices, and total narcisism. We believe he is paranoid schizophrenic based on his observed behaviour. I was forced to divorce him and the kids lost a decent father because his parents and the law refused to help get him on meds when he was still in the beginning phases of his disease. He is still on the loose and facing 3 sets of charges based on phone threats to us, various friends of the family and the kid's psychologist. The law refuses to recognize him as a medical emergency. The psycologists we are workign with say he is a murder suicide waiting to happen. I sleep with a 12 gage shotgun. The laws need to change.
this story is amazing
Oh my god what is the matter with people these days PEOPLE ARE SUCH EVIL ANIMALS if those kidnappers have nothing to do in there life why dont they just rape them selfs its
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