Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped, raped and held against her will for about 9 months of her life, she relived those moments during s speech.  She talks about her fears while being kidnapped and all of the horrible experiences she had while being held by a sick couple, at 14-years-old.

Steph Bassanini

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Elizabeth Smart yesterday talked of her torment after being kidnapped by a drifter who held her captive for nine months, saying she ‘felt dirty and filthy and worthless’ when he declared she was his ‘wife’ and raped her.
In a moving speech, she also revealed her fears that she would be killed by her captor – she even begged him to leave her body somewhere where her family could find it.
And she spoke about the moment she resolved to escape, in order to repay the love her mother had always given her.
Mitchell took her into the mountains, and Elizabeth reflected on stories she had heard of kidnapped children being killed.
She told the Palm Beach meeting: ‘I said, “If you are just going to rape and murder me, would you please do it here so my family can find my remains,” because I wanted them to know that I didn’t run away.
‘He turned to me and said, “I’m not going to do that to you yet.”‘
Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee took the girl into their home and he performed a quasi-religious ceremony on her making her his ‘wife’, then raped her.
‘I’ll never forget how that made me feel, how dirty and filthy and worthless,’ she said on Friday.
‘I lost all my self-worth in a matter of seconds. I thought, “How could anyone love me again, how could my family accept me back?”
‘I thought, “It would be better if he just killed me.”‘
But at that point she was inspired by the memory of a time she had been bullied at school and was crying to her mother.
‘She said she’d always love me,’ Ms Smart said. ‘In that moment I decided to do everything in my power to be reunited with my family.’
After nine months of torment, the girl and her captors were spotted in public by a bystander who recognised her from the massive publicity campaign which surrounded her disappearance.
Elizabeth was returned to her family, and her mother gave her some advice which she said was crucial in helping her re-adjust to normal life.
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