Posted on 05/26/2011 2:22:43 AM PDT by markomalley
Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday.
"We believe it is an appropriate, just and long overdue result for our community, for the Smart family and of course, most importantly, Elizabeth," said Carlie Christensen, U.S. Attorney for Utah.
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball issued the sentence Wednesday. A jury found Mitchell guilty in December of Smart's 2002 kidnapping.
"Mitchell's heinous conduct, the evidence of his propensity to reoffend mandated such a sentence," Christensen said.
Beaming before a group of reporters gathered outside the federal courthouse, Smart, now 23, said she was "thrilled" with the sentence -- the maximum allowable under the law.
"As I said during court, and I'll say it again now, I absolutely 100% believe that Brian David Mitchell knew exactly what he was doing when he kidnapped me, and all the events that followed. ... Today is the ending of a very long chapter, and the beginning of a very beautiful chapter for me," she said.
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This all started when her father tried to cheap out on replacing his roof.
Miss smart is a singularly poised and articulate young lady.
What about the scumbag’s “legal wife”? She seemed to be complicit in this and she ought to be prosecuted and jailed for life as well.
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The scum should also be castrated in public, will a dull rusty knife.
Child molesters should be given the following choice: castration or death.
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blame the father, second post
Yeah but her parents were too bright.
Castration, chemical or otherwise, does not work. Most people seem to believe that castration puts an end to the sex drive. It does not. It only has that effect if it is done prior to puberty, so that the castrato never develops.
Am glad that Justice has finally weighed in; but no excuse for it taking so long.
It took eight years to conclude this process. Eight %&$^!* years.
With the recent Supreme Court decision releasing 40K+ prisoners in California, there’s no such thing as a life sentence anymore. Today, just being incarcerated is considered cruel and unusual punishment to liberals. Give him a couple of years and he’ll be back on the streets and someone else’s daughter will be his next victim.
Elizabeth Smart is a beautiful, intelligent young woman and I truly wish her the best life possible. I don’t know what got her through all that trauma whether it was therapy, strong parents or her belief in God. Maybe all of them.
You must be right. Certainly it didn’t work with my post-pubescent black lab!
She truly is a beauty - and so poised and graceful. Her parents must have done something right. This also taught me not to always blame the family first - I was one of those types who thought the father was up to his ears in her disappearance (a common idea at the time). Wrong!
By the way, anyone following that creepy murderous girl in Florida? She’s blaming Daddie for her problems.
I think waterboarding once a week, every week for the rest of his life would be a much more suitable punishment.
I fully understand why you would question one of the parents first. How many times do the authorities find out that it was the Mom or Dad (step-parent, uncle etc...) I remember with Elizabeth Smart that I assumed that she was dead and was amazed that she was found months later. I saw the Cassie Anthony case this morning: her defense is that she was abused by her Dad. Yeah, right.
Calling this bum a “homeless street preacher” is like calling a drug dealer a street pharmacist...the left simply cannot stop trying to turn people away from God and religion. They are totally swept up by evil.
What an asinine statement...did you wake up on the wrong side of life this morning?
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