Elizabeth Smart says kidnapper was required to write her an apology — Transcript
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- 0:01Elizabeth Smart says she has been riding
- 0:03a roller coaster of emotion since
- 0:05learning one of her kidnappers Wanda bar
- 0:07Z will go free tomorrow after Utah
- 0:10fischels realized they'd miscalculated
- 0:12her sentence her husband Brian Mitchell
- 0:14is serving life they held smart for nine
- 0:17months in the early 2000s in an
- 0:19exclusive interview smart now thirty
- 0:21years old talked to Gayle King he said
- 0:25she has shown no remorse to you at all
- 0:28part of her plea deal back when her case
- 0:33came up it was required for her to write
- 0:36an apology to me but it was just a very
- 0:40brief I'm sorry for what I've done the
- 0:43end kind of thing and you felt nothing
- 0:46from that no I don't think you can just
- 0:50kidnap a fourteen-year-old girl and you
- 0:53know not only sit by her while she's
- 0:55being raped but encouraged the rapist to
- 0:57continue and do that for nine months
- 1:01with other countless atrocities and then
- 1:04just at the end of it say I'm sorry and
- 1:06really mean it and you know just hearing
- 1:08you say that you know as a woman as a
- 1:10mother you're a woman and a mother too
- 1:12to think that a woman and she's a mother
- 1:14of six can encourage a man her husband
- 1:17to rape you I can't even wrap my brain
- 1:20around what that was like or what that
- 1:23did to you from everything that I
- 1:25learned through the trial and everything
- 1:27that I learned being around her I don't
- 1:30think she deserves that mark of respect
- 1:31to have the title of mothers so she may
- 1:34have birthed six children but she
- 1:37certainly was no mother get more Bo
- 1:40King's interview with Elizabeth Smart
- 1:42bar Z will be monitored following her
- 1:44release tomorrow
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