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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I still think Elizabeth’s father is 1 of the dumbest jackasses on the face of this earth.
I think Wanda really is mentally ill — schizophrenic/psychotic/whatever — and can’t be held fully responsible for her actions. Based on recent reports from her mother, who released letters Wanda had written from prison, her tone has changed dramatically since she’s been on medication. Mitchell, on the other hand, appears to be just a garden variety sociopath, who not only doesn’t care how much he hurts people in the course of getting what he wants, but actually relishes it. He probably did some awful things to Wanda too, taking advantage of her mental illness in much the same way he took advantage of Elizabeth’s youth. Wanda probably belongs right where she is, in a secure mental institution under medication.
Mitchell should have been executed a long time ago. There’s something way wrong with our legal system when somebody can put on courtroom shows of uncontrollable mental illness and then be allowed to refuse medication. If he’s not menatlly ill, then he can control himself in the courtroom if he wants to, and if he’s mentally ill to the point of being unable to control himself, then he’s in no condition to be the judge of whether or not he needs medication. He’s figured out this idiotic loophole in our legal system and consciously exploited it.
I was just speculating what Whoopi would say, or how she’d spin. She’s thinks she’s good at spinning, as when she said Michael Vick was just doing what was normal for the part of Georgia he grew up in. (That would be news for 99.9999999999% of Georgians.) Also, notice how the worst crime Vick’s semi-defenders could ever summon for him was his participation in dog-fighting, NOT dog electrocution, dog torture, etc etc. THOSE little details were always swept under the rug. It’s still not as good , or as totally rancid as what Vick himself said, as he counselled school children, and pretended to be penitent. “I made the mistake of being a follower, not a leader. Don’t be a follower”. People are still under the false impression that Vick just got sucked into involvement with a “dog fighting ring”. I think that Polanski would lose half his followers if THEY HAD EVER READ THE TRANSCRIPT! They’re still operating on the premise that he just crossed the line, as an oversexed middle-aged man, probably with a pubescent Lolita.
Elizabeth Smart is alive, thankfully. But, this scumbag and his wife did murder her childhood. That IMHO deserves the death penalty.
Dude.
We are far more advanced today, in terms of technology, but I think the American people, as a whole, in 1909 were far smarter, and far more correct about just about everything in life, than we are now.
They would have known what to do with this guy and others like him.......
Yep, so true in a metaphorical way. Good point.
DITTO! He CREEPS me out......that smile is always present.
Mitchell is a guy I’d like to see stomped to death by other inmates.
Its the “just crossed the line” part that gets me.
Its not a line, its a tall wall with razorwire, guard towers and spotlights. At least it should be.
They won't do it on this thread, they pick their opportunities for their moral relativism when they feel safe to unveil it.
If the liberals could, they would decriminalize most sexual crimes, or at least they would lobby for destigmatization for such crimes.
Each of the founding states would have given this man a speedy trial and then he would have been executed; but liberals had not yet destroyed our law and much of the sanity of our culture.
Same with that evil trash that tortured Jaycee Dugard.
FRiend, don't be a bloomin' idiot, K?
I know that 9mm Hollow point rounds are scarce; but I’ll donate a clip to the Prosecutor if he’ll use them on these cretins.
I wouldn’t mind doing that to his wife as well. One look at her arrogant, evil face and my hand just itched to slap her.
Think how much money states and municipalities could raise if they allowed the highest bidder to kill perps like this. Wanna bet there is someone out there willing to pay a million dollars to do this bastard in?
Then, maybe you'd understand why your comment isn't cute or funny.
Bingo! On point. We now have WH czars who seem to think that sex with little children are ok! How much more perverted have we become as a nation that such individuals are not forced to resign and them driven out of being employed either in the private or public sector. Maybe Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Maher, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, all think it’s cool.
Hopefully so is the ahole that kept her captive.
How horribly sad. I wonder how she kept from getting pregnant.
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