My argument is that she was a sheltered little girl who was kidnapped at knifepoint by a deranged man and his pathetic wife. And your assertion that she was “in on it” is so ridiculous. I do not know what kind of 14 year old girls you know.. But they are not like this little, naive girl who had her innocence robbed. Shame on you. there was no evidence then of that and there is zero today. But I guess you are so brilliant you know better. I guess you must believe thatnevery Little Mormon girl’s wish is to be raped and held hostage by a dirty, crazy middle aged man.
And just because I point out the obvious does not make me a Democrat, it make me astute.
I didn’t ask if you were a Dem because you pointed out the obvious - but because you resorted to instant name-calling instead of presenting an argument.
And no, I don’t think it is every Mormon girl’s wish to run away with a lunatic, I think that this girl was from a peculiar family with an extremely impaired sense of reality, who put their daughters at risk by giving strange men who were mentally disturbed access to their home. That alone is mind-boggling. This man had the delusion that he was some kind of messiah and I believe that he seduced this gullible teenager into believing some pseudo-religious nonsense.
It is very easy to get heated and defensive about the purity of this girl, but this man was not a stranger, as in the Polly Klass abduction/murder in Petaluma, and the exact details of the Smart abduction are still hazy.