Elizabeth Smart Testifies — Transcript

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1. 0:00a confident looking Elizabeth Smart
2. 0:02arrived at the courthouse with her
3. 0:03parents in her testimony smart recounted
4. 0:06the horrifying night when she was 14
5. 0:08years old and Brian David Mitchell came
6. 0:11through her bedroom window smart
7. 0:13testified he then put the knife up to my
8. 0:15neck he told me to get up quietly and if
9. 0:17I didn't then he would kill me in my
10. 0:19family smart said her 9 months of Hell
11. 0:21began when Mitchell hiked her 3 miles up
12. 0:23a canyon where he and his wife Wanda bar
13. 0:26had set up camp he came and performed a
14. 0:28ceremony which was to carry me to him
15. 0:30smart testified after that he proceeded
16. 0:33to rape me US attorney how often did he
17. 0:36rape you smart on a daily basis up to
18. 0:39three or four times there were certainly
19. 0:41a lot of things that I had never heard
20. 0:43before and I had
21. 0:48uh I had no idea what she had gone
22. 0:51through so much out there until now
23. 0:55Elizabeth Smart has been guarded about
24. 0:56how much she's revealed but in 2003 she
25. 1:00did tell Katie kuck about Mitchell's
26. 1:01verbal abuse what were you most looking
27. 1:04forward to during all those months um
28. 1:07just being back and not having to be
29. 1:10like told I'm a horrible Wicked EV evil
30. 1:13girl every 10 seconds at Mitchell's
31. 1:15competency hearing today the US attorney
32. 1:17asked smart was he articulate yes was he
33. 1:20quick on his feet Yes could he adapt to
34. 1:23his surroundings yes I thought she was
35. 1:26graceful and remarkable strong um and
36. 1:29gave powerful testimony today Elizabeth
37. 1:31Smart is now 21 years old an outspoken
38. 1:34advocate for abducted children she tells
39. 1:36other victims their lives may be
40. 1:38different but they can still be good Ben
41. 1:41Tracy CBS News Los Angeles