Elizabeth Smart to testify against kidnapper — Transcript

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1. 0:00it's been 9 years since Elizabeth Smart
2. 0:02was kidnapped from her home at age 14 it
3. 0:05began a horrific 9-month ordeal for her
4. 0:07today Elizabeth Smart gets to confront
5. 0:10her attacker at his sentencing hearing
6. 0:12CBS News correspondent John Blackstone
7. 0:14has the story when he is sentenced today
8. 0:17Brian David Mitchell will not only hear
9. 0:19from the judge he will also have to
10. 0:22listen to Elizabeth Smart Describe the
11. 0:24impact of her kidnapping and 9 months
12. 0:26held captive I would encourage
13. 0:30any child any victim anyone who has
14. 0:35been hurt by someone that they stand up
15. 0:40smart was a vulnerable 14-year-old when
16. 0:43Mitchell took her at knife point from
17. 0:45her Salt Lake City bedroom in June 2002
18. 0:48Now 23 she has grown into a Confident
19. 0:51Woman during Mitchell's trial last year
20. 0:54she described how he raped her
21. 0:57repeatedly difficult testimony that
22. 0:59helped convin Mitchell we can speak out
23. 1:02and we will be heard Mitchell did not
24. 1:04actually face smart during his trial he
25. 1:06was removed from court for singing hymns
26. 1:09Mitchell's hold over smart was once so
27. 1:11powerful that with her face hidden
28. 1:13behind a veil he could take her on the
29. 1:15streets of Salt Lake City without her
30. 1:17attempting to escape now she is
31. 1:20determined not to be labeled a victim
32. 1:23there's so much good in the world and so
33. 1:25much to see and learn and do that we
34. 1:28can't
35. 1:30we can't sit around feeling sorry for
36. 1:32ourselves and we need to move on moving
37. 1:35on for smart and her family may be
38. 1:37easier when this long running case
39. 1:39finally ends today prosecutors want
40. 1:42Mitchell sentenced to prison for life
41. 1:45John Blackstone CBS News San Francisco