Elizabeth Smart Research Paper

While watching the videos on sex trafficking, I ran across a single sex trafficking video about Elizabeth Smart. She was taken by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee, on June 5th, 2002, by cutting a screen in the window, at night from her own bed at knifepoint. At 14-years old Elizabeth Smart was chained up, sexually abused and dressed in disguise. Held first in the mountains of Utah, Smart's captors took her to Southern California until she devised a plan to convince them that they should all return to Utah, hopeful that her chances of rescue would be better -- closer to home. She was right -- nine months after she was abducted, Smart was rescued. She ultimately found the strength to confront her kidnappers in court and move on with her lif, and waiting for high school, she had five siblings, she was ready to date, get her driver’s license and be in sports and the high school clubs. Elizabeth was a Mormon, she was sheltered and protected, and had a lot of faith. During this

She wore long robes, a long headdress, than gave Elizabeth a hug. The women led Elizabeth to the tent and ordered her to undress, and left her sitting on a bucket alone in the tent. The kidnapper came into the tent and began to perform a marriage ceremony. She hear him say that she was now his wife, Elizabeth was terrified, because she knew what came after being married, and that could not happen to her, she was saving herself for marriage. Elizabeth fell asleep, when she woke up, her ankle was chained her to a tree, she was only allowed to move 20 feet away in each direction. The kidnapper raped her everyday sometimes several times per day. The Kidnapper said that drinking and doing drugs was part of his religion, so he made her do this every day. The kidnapper believed he was a profit of God and that she had to experience evil in order to become