Elizabeth Smart to testify against kidnapper — Transcript

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1. 0:00it's been nine years since elizabeth
2. 0:01smart was kidnapped from her home at age
3. 0:0414. it began a horrific nine-month
4. 0:06ordeal for her today elizabeth smart
5. 0:09gets to confront her attacker at his
6. 0:11sentencing hearing cbs news
7. 0:13correspondent john blackstone has the
8. 0:15story when he is sentenced today brian
9. 0:18david mitchell will not only hear from
10. 0:20the judge he will also have to listen to
11. 0:22elizabeth smart describe the impact of
12. 0:24her kidnapping in nine months held
13. 0:27captive i would
14. 0:29encourage
15. 0:30any child any victim anyone who
16. 0:34has been
17. 0:36hurt
18. 0:37by someone that they
19. 0:39stand up smart was a vulnerable 14 year
20. 0:43old when mitchell took her at knifepoint
21. 0:45from her salt lake city bedroom in june
22. 0:472002
23. 0:48now 23 she has grown into a confident
24. 0:51woman during mitchell's trial last year
25. 0:54she described how he raped her
26. 0:56repeatedly difficult testimony that
27. 0:59helped convict mitchell
28. 1:01we can't speak out and we will be heard
29. 1:03mitchell did not actually face smart
30. 1:05during his trial he was removed from
31. 1:07court for singing hymns mitchell's
32. 1:10holdover smart was once so powerful that
33. 1:12with her face hidden behind a veil he
34. 1:14could take her on the streets of salt
35. 1:16lake city without her attempting to
36. 1:18escape
37. 1:19now she is determined not to be labeled
38. 1:22a victim there's so much good in the
39. 1:24world and so much to see and learn and
40. 1:26do that
41. 1:28we can't
42. 1:30we can't sit around feeling sorry for
43. 1:32ourselves and we need to move on moving
44. 1:35on for smart and her family may be
45. 1:37easier when this long-running case
46. 1:39finally ends today prosecutors want
47. 1:42mitchell sentenced to prison for life
48. 1:45john blackstone cbs news san francisco