Thursday, May 26, 2011

Elizabeth Smart looks to 'beautiful' future Kidnapper gets life; the last word Confronts Her Captor [Justice] Girl's abductor 2 life terms Street preacher in case National Briefing | Rockies Utah Preacher Gets Life Sentence for Abduction faces her kidnapper at his sentencing Mitchell ‘You know what you did’ Prison of sentenced kidnapping court could face prison set Former street Comment on Edwards and Case Against Political Wife

Nine years after being kidnapped, tortured and raped, Elizabeth is ready to start a "beautiful" chapter in her life, helping other child victims who can't speak for themselves or are still missing. SALT LAKE CITY - Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront the street preacher convicted of holding her captive and raping her for months when she was just 14. Declaring Brian David Mitchell's crimes against Elizabeth Smart "unusually heinous and degrading," U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball's sentenced the man who kidnapped, raped and tortured her for nine months in 2002 to a life in federal prison. Mitchell had never spoken a word in court, "except to sing a string of hymns, beginning with 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,'" the _Salt Lake Tribune_ reports. More » SALT LAKE CITY - Nearly nine years after she was abducted at knifepoint from her bed, Elizabeth Smart watched Wednesday without showing any emotion as a federal judge ordered a street preacher to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping her while holding her captive for months. SALT LAKE CITY - Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront the street preacher convicted of holding her captive and raping her for months when she was just 14. Now 23, she stood tall in the courtroom - stoic, with an even voice and a strength Brian David Mitchell clearly lacked. Nearly nine years after Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bed, a judge ordered a street preacher to life in prison for raping her while holding her captive for months. SALT LAKE CITY | Elizabeth Smart finally got her chance Wednesday to confront the street preacher convicted of holding her captive and raping her for months when she was just 14. Now 23, she stood tall in the courtroom -- stoic, with an even voice and a strength Brian David Mitchell clearly lacked. Mitchell, frail and skinny with a long, peppery white beard, sang hymns softly and closed his hollow eyes, just as he did throughout his trial, just as he would moments later as the judge gave him two life sentences without parole. That did not stop Smart from looking right at him and coolly speaking. #### Smart to Mitchell: 'You know what you did' By Melinda rogers The Salt Lake Tribune ##### Published May 25, 2011 08:45PM MDT Elizabeth Smart gazed unflinchingly at the man who held her captive and raped her daily for nine months in 2002. As he'd done in court many times before, Brian David Mitchell quietly sang church hymns Wednesday, with his cuffed hands clasped together and his eyes closed. But the sentencing — for one of the most notable crimes in Utah history — proceeded despite Mitchell's bizarre behavior. And at the finale of Mitchell's eight-year legal saga, the former homeless street preacher's antics in fe... ##### Copyright 2011 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Nearly nine years after she was abducted at knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart watched a federal judge order a street preacher to spend the rest of his life in prison. Nearly nine years after she was abducted at knifepoint from her bed, Elizabeth Smart watched Wednesday as a federal judge ordered a street preacher to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping her while holding her captive for months SALT LAKE CITY -- Nearly nine years after she was abducted at knifepoint from her bed, Elizabeth Smart watched Wednesday without showing any emotion as a federal judge ordered a street preacher to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping her while holding her captive ... SALT LAKE CITY - Nearly nine years after she was taken at knifepoint, raped and held captive, Elizabeth Smart arrived Wednesday at a federal courthouse for the sentencing of the former street preacher who kidnapped her. SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The homeless street preacher convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart faces a possible life prison term when he is sentenced on Wednesday, during a hearing in which Smart was expected to address him directly. (05-25) 11:40 PDT Salt Lake City (AP) -- Nearly nine years after she was taken at knifepoint, raped and held captive, Elizabeth Smart is set to publicly confront her kidnapper for the first time Wednesday when he is... Elizabeth Smart watched Wednesday as a federal judge ordered a street preacher to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping her while holding her captive for months. You win, Elizabeth. Live well. What the last years of her life tell us about the cost of being the woman behind the man
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