Posted on 10/01/2009 11:45:52 AM PDT by Steelfish
Elizabeth Smart Says She Was Raped Daily
Elizabeth Smart, right, arrives at the federal courthouse with her mother, Lois Smart, and her father [Pic in URL]
By JENNIFER DOBNER SALT LAKE CITY Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday she was raped repeatedly each day after she was abducted from her bedroom seven years ago and told she would be killed if she yelled or tried to escape.
She described Brian David Mitchell, her alleged kidnapper, as "evil, wicked, manipulative, stinky, slimy, selfish, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God."
Smart testified in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City as part of a competency proceeding for the man charged in her 2002 kidnapping.
Mitchell has twice been found incompetent for trial in state court. Mitchell and his estranged wife were found with Smart nine months after she disappeared from her Salt Lake City home.
A judge ruled earlier this week that testimony from Smart, now 21, is relevant to the mental competency of Mitchell, who was removed from the courtroom before Smart arrived and taken to a holding cell where he could listen to the proceedings.
Smart was poised and composed while testifying for just under two hours.
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Can’t agree more. When will we in this country really protect children from these preditors?
I guess I'm just a mean man. I have always thought that what is good for the goose, is good for the gander. Why is it a psycho can torture his victims to death over minutes, hours or days; but he can demand a quick and easy death? I see nothing wrong with drowning them; let them feel the fear of the inevitable, the struggle to live, the horror of knowing that you have to breathe sometime - after all, they had no problem introducing horror, fear and pain on their victim.
Okay.
My guess is that this has more to do with Mitchell than with Elizabeth -- even though when she was first kidnapped she didn't look physically mature enough to be menstruating, she did when she was found 9 months later.
Mitchell had two children in his brief first marriage that ended when he was about 21. With all the delving into his background, there hasn't been so much as a whisper of any subsequent offspring, even though we've heard plenty about his subsequent relationships and marriages through the 25+ years between the end of his first marriage and his abduction of Elizabeth, including at least one to a woman who was still of child-bearing age and whose young teenage daughter from a previous marriage he was "molesting" (presumably raping) for at least a couple of years. I think he's infertile for some reason, though I doubt he would have had a vasectomy. It's not terribly uncommon for middle aged or older men to be infertile -- it's usually something easily fixable with a minor medical procedure, but Mitchell wouldn't have been likely to pursue diagnostics and treatment.
I certainly hope Elizabeth was as "fortunate" in the STD department as she was in the pregnancy department. STDs are a major cause of infertility in men, and Mitchell seems very likely to have contracted one or more along the way, and not to have gotten prompt (or any) treatment for it.
At least for Mitchell, skip the grinding and just hand him over to the alligators, kicking and screaming. He deserves to see those jaws coming at him -- finally, a creature he can't manipulate.
I think Wanda is seriously mentally ill, and she seems to be responding to medication, and being cooperative. Keeping her permanently ensconced in a secure psychiatric institution is good enough for me. From Elizabeth's testimony, it sounds like Wanda was being manipulated and exploited by Mitchell, much as Elizabeth was. They were both mentally weak -- Wanda because of mental illness, and Elizabeth because of youth, inexperience, trauma, and we learn now, forced drug and alcohol intake as well -- and Mitchell was a determined and experienced exploiter.
Where’s the rope.Hang Him high.
Really, I read by 1981 he was married to his second wife, Debbie Mitchell, who had three daughters from a previous marriage. With Debbie's three children and Brian's two children, the Mitchell's had their hands full, but that did not stop the couple from having two more children soon after their marriage.
On the same day that Mitchell and Debbie divorced, Mitchell married Wanda Barzee. Barzee was a 40-year-old divorcee with six children, who she left with her ex-husband when she left the marriage. I would have thought that a lack of children with Barzee would likely have been caused by her age (over 40) and not with Mitchell who was 32 years old at the time and had already fathered four children.
I just hope she's really doing as well as she appears to be doing, and that she can continue keeping this horrible experience more or less in a separate compartment of her mind, not interfering with the rest of her life.
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