View Full Version : Remember that rich mormon girl who was kidnapped by a crazy homeless guy and his wife


sickbadthing
09-30-2009, 03:31 PM
She's going to be a missionary! In Paris!

http://www.ksl.com/emedia/slc/1465/146581/14658129.jpg?filter=ksl/pgallery


Elizabeth Smart excited to serve LDS mission
September 29th, 2009 @ 10:10pm
By Brooke Walker

SALT LAKE CITY -- It's been a quiet seven years since Elizabeth Smart was taken from her Salt Lake home. But now the 21-year-old BYU student is excited to speak out and share a message of comfort and faith.

Poised, confident and assured, Elizabeth says her decision to serve a mission to Paris, France, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints feels like the right next step.

"I'm so excited to be going," she says. "The more I thought about it, the better I felt about it."

Her parents were surprised but supportive.

"I was like, ‘Oh, by the way, Mom, I'm going on a mission.'" Elizabeth recalls. "She was like, ‘What?!' Both of my parents were so happy."

Elizabeth has visited the country several times as a tourist but recognizes it will be very different as a missionary.

"I was there a couple of months ago, and I had this very good friend I was there with," Elizabeth remembers. "I would try to say something, and she would say, ‘That's not how you say it.' So, I was like, ‘Oh dear.' I have a lot of work to do!"

Along with the work, Elizabeth says she has a powerful message to share. She says it was her faith in God that helped her navigate through the unexpected twists and turns in her own life.

"I knew whatever could happen to me, whatever happens to me, I will always be with my family," Elizabeth says. "I know that there is a God and he loves us and that no matter what people can take from you or do to you or harm you, they can't take that away from you."

It's a message she's excited to share with the people of France.

"I want them to know God exists and that he loves them, and there isn't anything in this world that could possibly change what he feels for them," Elizabeth says. "And that they will never be alone, and that he wants them to be happy."

Elizabeth will enter the Missionary Training Center the second week of November.

sickbadthing
09-30-2009, 03:32 PM
LOL @ the fucking crazies who post comments

ksl.com - Elizabeth Smart excited to serve LDS mission (http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=299&sid=8108202&comments=true)

Eulogy
09-30-2009, 03:51 PM
Who cares?? I am a victim of abuse too and have done some things in my life. Heck, I've even been to Europe. This gal is not inspiring, she's annoying. Bad enough she let herself be duped by that guy at age 14 (that's FOURTEEN, people, not FOUR) but she won't go away now.
Had she just taken the stupid hood off eight years ago at Liberty Park when they were visiting the drum circle, her ordeal would have been over months earlier. But no, she was told that men who claim to be divinely inspired must be obeyed blindly, so she was duped for 11 months. It was tragicomic back then. Now, it's just pathetic.
Uncle, uncle, uncle!!!

ha

duovamp
09-30-2009, 04:12 PM
Out of the frying pan into the fire. lolreligion

Andy /
09-30-2009, 04:24 PM
i'd come on her tits.

YSEM
09-30-2009, 04:29 PM
freaky smile.

wHATcOLOR
09-30-2009, 04:33 PM
"[...]whatever happens to me, I will always be with my family," Elizabeth says.

oh yeah? *kidnaps*

duovamp
09-30-2009, 04:42 PM
^Perfect opportunity to use your sig

The Jesus
09-30-2009, 04:45 PM
Missionary position

MonteLDS
09-30-2009, 04:55 PM
good for her. now lets move on with our lives

Eulogy
09-30-2009, 04:57 PM
shut the fuck up, monte

MonteLDS
09-30-2009, 04:59 PM
i prefer not to.

sickbadthing
09-30-2009, 05:00 PM
you don't have to go shitting all over our enjoyment of a totally worthless news story though

Eulogy
09-30-2009, 05:06 PM
did monte just make a literary reference or was it just an accident

wHATcOLOR
09-30-2009, 05:11 PM
^Perfect opportunity to use your sig

dang it!! i even meant to. i remember thinking, this is the perfect post for my sig, but i got called away from my computer and when i came back to hit submit i had forgotten

Elvis The Fat Years
09-30-2009, 05:29 PM
looks like elisha cuthberts less attractive little sister, but i'd still cum on her tits after andyslash was done cumming on her tits.

sickbadthing
09-30-2009, 05:36 PM
sweet, sweet bukake

D.
09-30-2009, 06:13 PM
did monte just make a literary reference or was it just an accident
i think we all know the answer to this.

Mo
09-30-2009, 07:34 PM
Mormon missionary? Not so Smart then, eh?

Nimrod's Son
09-30-2009, 08:23 PM
i'd cum all up in that dyed hair of hers

ATS
09-30-2009, 08:25 PM
i seem to recall her being better looking

YSEM
09-30-2009, 08:27 PM
im telling you.. it's that smile. =[:]

sickbadthing
09-30-2009, 08:31 PM
yeah that fake happy repressed mormon smile

they all have it there

duovamp
09-30-2009, 08:48 PM
I'd marry the fuck outta this hot piece of ass in addition to my current wife BECAUSE I CAN YOU FAGGOTS

Well, touche, Monte. Touche.

samuel redman
09-30-2009, 09:32 PM
what is bukake

YSEM
09-30-2009, 09:38 PM
it's a type of motorcycle i think. google it.

mxzombie
09-30-2009, 09:44 PM
better do an image search

I'm Hardcore
09-30-2009, 09:46 PM
i seem to recall her being better looking

they always are when they're 14

Trotskilicious
10-01-2009, 12:02 PM
so u think your all that b/c u no how 2 spel

Ol' Couch Ass
10-01-2009, 01:55 PM
Who cares?? I am a victim of abuse too and have done some things in my life. Heck, I've even been to Europe. This gal is not inspiring, she's annoying. Bad enough she let herself be duped by that guy at age 14 (that's FOURTEEN, people, not FOUR) but she won't go away now.
Had she just taken the stupid hood off eight years ago at Liberty Park when they were visiting the drum circle, her ordeal would have been over months earlier. But no, she was told that men who claim to be divinely inspired must be obeyed blindly, so she was duped for 11 months. It was tragicomic back then. Now, it's just pathetic.
Uncle, uncle, uncle!!!

She sounds like the perfect mormon wife- blindly following her man and doing what she is told. If her lady parts are all in working order and she's capable of pumping out a mess of kids she is one of LDS's most eligible bachelorettes.

Ol' Couch Ass
10-01-2009, 01:58 PM
looks like elisha cuthberts less attractive little sister

Spot on.

pale blue eyes
10-01-2009, 04:26 PM
Good for her. Not many people would give up there lives for two years.

duovamp
10-01-2009, 04:52 PM
Good for her. Not many people would give up there lives for two years.

Alright Monte, log out of this account. We know it's you.

pale blue eyes
10-01-2009, 05:32 PM
Alright Monte, log out of this account. We know it's you.

I dated a Mormon for several years and met quite a few of them as a result. There are some fanatics but most of them are just insanely nice.

Dogfighter28
10-01-2009, 05:37 PM
DEL UGH

threetwooneZERO
10-01-2009, 08:06 PM
freaky smile.

jealous.

yo soy el mejor
10-01-2009, 08:13 PM
nigga plz.

sickbadthing
10-01-2009, 09:53 PM
Heheh whoa this is pretty fucked up.

NOTE: Due to high traffic we have temporarily disabled the comment board feature on this story in order to speed load times. (yeah right it's because people are being insensitive assholes)

SALT LAKE CITY -- It was a moment six years in the making. Elizabeth Smart took the stand at U.S. District Court Thursday during a competency hearing for her accused kidnapper Brian David Mitchell.

For two hours, the 21-year-old recounted the details from the nine months she was held in captivity.

She testified Brian David Mitchell came into her bedroom on the night of June 5, 2002, held a knife to her throat and told her to get up quietly, or he'd kill her and her family.

She said he told her to get her shoes on. When she reached for slip-on shoes, he told her to get some tennis shoes.

She asked him why he was taking her. She said he told her he was taking her hostage and keeping her for ransom. She then said that was a lie.

Smart said Mitchell took her to a camp in the mountains, about three miles from her home, where she met Mitchell's wife Wanda Barzee. Smart said Mitchell took her into a tent and performed a marriage ceremony. She said after the ceremony, Mitchell raped her.

She testified that Mitchell raped her on a daily basis, three to four times a day.

She said, "There was no actual 24-hour period where he wasn't able to rape me."

She said for the nine months that she was held captive, the dominant focus for Mitchell was sex. She said he gave her alcohol and drugs to lower her resistance. He also made her watch pornography. He said it was to humble her.

She recalled a time when she vomited from too much alcohol, and Mitchell forced her to lie face down in it, saying it would show her "true state".

She said, "Anything I showed resistance or hesitance to, he would turn to me and say, 'The Lord has commanded you to do this. You have to experience the lowest form of humanity to experience the highest.'"

She said he used religion to get whatever he wanted. He would use methods like singing if he couldn't get what he wanted to fool people.

Smart said they moved to San Diego when it began to get cold in Utah, and because Mitchell wanted to find another wife. She said it was in California that Mitchell met a family while he pretended to be an LDS investigator, someone who wanted to learn more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Smart said Mitchell saw a picture of the family's teenage daughter when he was invited to their home for dinner. She said Mitchell wanted to kidnap the girl, but his plans failed.

She described Mitchell as "smart, articulate, evil, wicked,manipulative, sneaky, slimy, selfish, greedy, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God."

She remained calm and composed throughout her testimony.

Brian David Mitchell was not in the courtroom while she testified because as soon as he was brought inside the courtroom, he started singing. He was taken to a room where he had an audio/video feed of the events happening the courtroom.

Battle to prove Mitchell's competency has just begun

Brett Tolman, the U.S. attorney for Utah, said the fight to get Mitchell to trial was far from over, but he was confident moving forward.

"It is the United States' position that he is competent. We have held that position from the beginning," he said.

"We intend to call dozens of witnesses that have spent a considerable amount of time--especially those that may have spent time with him while he has been in the hospital or incarcerated," Tolman said.

He said investigators also continued to follow up on leads ahead of the remainder of the federal competency hearing Nov. 30.

It is possible this may not be the end of testimony from Elizabeth Smart. Tolman acknowledged she could be called to testify again if this ever goes to trial.

"You never want that to have to happen," Tolman said. "We've discussed it, and Elizabeth and I have discussed it, and we'll do what we need to do if we have to cross that bridge."

Mitchell's attorneys, however, maintained Mitchell was incompetent and unable to rationally assist in his defense.

"There's indications from what she testified to that, that he is delusional, and there's indications that he also is off into his desires," said defense attorney Robert Steele.

He added, "I think the experts disagree. Nobody is saying that is not what happened. There are differing opinions about what all that means."

Ed Smart talks about daughter's testimony

Following Elizabeth's testimony, her father spoke to reporters in front of the courthouse. He said he was proud of his daughter.

Elizabeth Smart testified in federal court against Brian David Mitchell, her accused kidnapper. For nine months officials and regular people floated theories and suspicions, but the real events were more disturbing than most of us imagined.

"I was very proud of her, the way she was able to be so forthright and basically paint the picture of Brian Mitchell, of what he is," he said.

When asked if he was surprised by anything his daughter said on the stand, he said, "To hear how, what a predator he was constantly and I just, it was horrible to hear how he abused her."

Smart said Elizabeth wasn't afraid to face her alleged abuser. In fact, she wanted to make sure he heard what she had to say.

"She actually wanted to face him and, in fact, I think she asked Brett if he could be muzzled and have to sit there to watch it," he said.

Smart said his daughter's account of her time in captivity proved Mitchell knew exactly what he was doing.

"If this doesn't cinch the issue of competency, our nation is in really, really bad shape, because it means that anyone out there can manipulate and make the court do what it wants and get away with what they want," he said.

Smart said his daughter's testimony cleared any doubts about Mitchell's true character.

"Hopefully a lot of people learned about what he was like and what he did, and what his intentions were and what his intentions still are, I believe, to do if he ever got out again," he said.

Rape counselor discusses Smart's decision to testify

Executive Director of the Rape Recovery Center Heather Stringfellow applauded Elizabeth Smart's decision to take the witness stand.

"You know it really does take a brave woman to get up on the stand and tell their story," Stringfellow said. "Tell a very personal and painful story."

Stringfellow said once a victim gets through the testimony it can be empowering to know they've done their part to help hold someone accountable. She also said it could help the victim move forward with life.

KSL Newsradio spoke with attorney Marguerite Driessen about the difference between being insane or competent to stand trial. Listen to that interview at the audio link on this page.

Her father was one of the most grating, annoying people ever to walk the earth.

I suppose she still didn't deserve to be raped constantly for 9 months. Do you think they gave her an abortion? Why didn't she get preggo? I guess it was possible she wasn't menstruating by age 14. I bet getting raped by that guy is pretty creepy and gross!

sickbadthing
10-01-2009, 09:56 PM
http://www.ksl.com/emedia/slc/1470/147049/14704963.jpg?filter=ksl/pgallery

Very hip outfit, Elizabeth!

Gossamer
10-01-2009, 10:02 PM
is that sarcastic?

looks like something Emily Gilmore would wear.

yo soy el mejor
10-01-2009, 10:20 PM
she's going to court.

sickbadthing
10-01-2009, 10:31 PM
she's going to court.

Yeah but she's 20 not 60.

yo soy el mejor
10-01-2009, 10:34 PM
she doesn't wanna get rape-raped.

agenda suicide
10-02-2009, 03:09 AM
good for her. now lets move on with our lives

hahah what the hell??

ohnoitsbonnie
10-02-2009, 06:45 AM
I like that outfit a lot but I don't like the styling of her hair

ohnoitsbonnie
10-02-2009, 06:51 AM
I think she and I would make great friends