When she was first brought to the Utah settlement, she was kept tied to trees by a series of cables that were "bolted" to her leg, according to the Tribune transcript. The rapes stopped for a moment when Wanda Barzee, Mitchell's wife who is also under arrest for related crimes, would get angry at Mitchell and demand attention.
Despite these pauses, "There wasn't an actual hour period he wasn't able to rape" Smart, she said in the paper's transcript. Smart tried to deny Mitchell's urges and persuade him to let her go, but she was unable to stop her attacker. He said that if I did that he would never have sex with me again and I would be the most miserable woman in the world. He said that, but it didn't stop him," she testified, according to the Tribune.
He let me lie face down in my vomit for the entire night until I woke up the next day," the paper reports she said. Mitchell's response to Smart's condition was "He said that I was showing my true state," she said, according to the Tribune's transcript.
Mitchell is charged in state court with kidnapping and sexual assault. Last year, he was indicted on federal charges of kidnapping and transporting a minor across state lines.
Viti: Do you recognize that silver circle around that tree, Ms. Smart is holding exhibit D Smart: Yes. Viti: Thank you. Smart, where did the defendant keep the bolt cutters we saw yesterday? Smart: They were in a bucket far out of my reach in the underground house he was digging out.
Viti: The cable system, did it not allow you to reach the bolt cutters? Viti: When the defendant placed the cable around your ankle, were the other components of the cable system already in place?
Viti: Did there come a time when you were held in the upper camp where the defendant gave you a name? Viti: What name? Smart: Shear-Jashub. Viti: Did he tell you why? Viti: Why? Viti: Did he tell you what it meant? Smart: Yeah. Viti: What? Viti: Explain. I asked the defendant if I had to be called that name and he said he would allow me choose a middle name that I could be called for a time.
However, I could not be Elizabeth or Ann, and it the name had to be out of the Bible. Viti: And did you choose a name? Viti: What did you choose? Smart: I chose Esther. Viti: Did you ever speak to the defendant about your parents? Viti: What types of things would you discuss? Smart: How much I loved them and how much they meant to me. Viti: How did he react? Viti: Did he ever tell you to refer to him and Wanda Barzee as mom and dad?
Smart: There was a time he told me to refer to him and Wanda as mom and dad, but it was only in public. Viti: Did the defendant use vulgar language while being held in Utah? Viti: Could you describe when he used such language? Smart: He used it fairly frequent, but he would especially use it while he was drinking or before he would rape me. Viti: Would he use vulgar language to refer to the male and female genitalia? Viti: Would he use that kind of language before raping?
Viti: Were there other times he would use vulgar language? Viti: Would you explain to the jury those times? Smart: Um, he would use vulgar language.
Well um, there came a time when he said that we had to sink below all things so one day we could rise above all things, and he brought pornography in the camp and he would talk about the women using vulgar terms.
Viti: The pornography, was that in California or in Utah? Smart: That was in California. Viti: Focus on the time in Utah. Were there times he would use vulgar language when he returned from Salt Lake City or return to the camp? Judge, I wonder if it would be appropriate to repeat a phrase used. Viti: Would he do that often?
Viti: What would happen when he returned to the camp and said that? Smart: He would rape me. Viti: And on these occasions before he would rape you would he refer to religion in any way? Smart: No. Smart, did there come a time when the defendant removed the cable from your ankle? Viti: Could you describe the events leading up to him removing the cable? Smart: Um. The night before he gave me a key to wear around my neck and then the next morning he cut the cable off my ankle. Viti: What did he tell you when he gave you the key?
Did he tell you anything about that key? Smart: Um Viti: Is this the key that was on the green lanyard? Viti: That evening when you had that key, what were the sleeping arrangements? Where they the same as when you described them yesterday?
Viti: What would you have had to do to use that key to unlock the lock? Smart: I would have had to stand up right next to him, unzip the tent right next to this head, go outside and unlock the lock that connected me onto the stationary cable, coil my cable up and run down the mountainside. Viti: Would you have had to climb over the defendant in order to reach the tent zipper?
Viti: What kind of sleeper was the defendant? Smart: He was a light sleeper. Viti: What happened the next day? Smart: The next day, he took the bolt cutters out and cut the cable off my ankle. Viti: Did he say anything to you before he removed the cable?
Your family will be killed. If you try to escape. Thank you for being here promptly, we appreicate your work. Mitchell, you have a constitutional right to be here unless you continue to disrupt the proceedings. Smart, you may resume the stand. Attorney Felice Viti: Ms. Just by way of refresher, who acturally wrote the book? Elizabeth Smart: The defendant. Viti: Did you ever during your nine months see him write in it? Viti: Did you see him spend a lot of time often with the book?
Smart: Um, I saw him spend time with the book. Viti: Did you see him spend a lot of time writing in the book in the nine months you were obseving him? Viti: Did you read the book? Viti: Did the defendant tell you details about the night he took you from your home? Viti: Did the defendant ever describe that evening and how he took you? Viti: During that description, did he ever tell you he did not use a weapon? Viti: He told you he did not use a weapon? Viti: Did he ever tell you that your parents knew you were all right during your course of the nine months?
Viti: Did he ever tell you your parents invited him in to take you and be with you? Smart: Yes, he said that he felt directed by the lord to dress in normal street clothing so that he could find a girl to take.
Viti: Did he ever include in his rationale for wearing street clothes at that time Sept. Viti: What did he say about that? Smart: He said there were too many people that became immediately prejudiced against him in thinking that he was Muslim or a terrorist, and it got to be so much he said he felt directed to stop wearing the robes for a time.
Smart, did the defendant during the nine months you described give blessings directed toward you or with you? Viti: What types of blessing were they if you recall? Smart: It was always if he wanted me to do something, he always wanted me to feel that God had something to tell me. Viti: When he did say he wanted you to do something, what types of things did he want you to do?
Smart: To clean up around the camp, to be there sexually for him when he wanted me, to tell me that I was chosen and fore ordained to be his wife before I ever came to Earth and Viti: Any physical aspects of these blessings?
Smart: He would lay his hands on my head. Viti: Did the words and these actions given to you or Ms. Were you familiar with them? Viti: Prior to June 5, did you ever experience blessings?
Smart: Yes, but not like that. Viti: And that was part of your religious beliefs and upbringing within the LDS church? Smart: Well, the blessings I had always received had been blessings of comfort or -- they were just comfort and reassurance that I have my choices and I can make the right choice.
Compared to the blessings that the defendant tried to give me. He told me what to do. He told me what was expected to me.
He never said I had my agency to choose. It was all very dictated. Viti: Are blessings something that are very important? These types of blessings that you have received prior to June 5, , are they very important in spiritual life for yourself? Viti: Are any blessings you may have received prior to June 5, Viti: Did you ever Viti: When you observed the defendant provide Wanda with blessings, in your observations did you think that Wanda believed them?
Smart you talk Was there anything else besides what you have told us about the defendant, what steps he took to avoid detection? Smart: He had cut off all relations with his family or past friends that I knew of. I never saw him communicate with anyone. Were there certain routes or paths you would take up and down from the upper camp? Viti: What would he say? So we would take different ways down the mountainside.
Did you in fact have those conversations with him about getting caught? Viti: And did he talk about the consequences of that? Viti: What did he say? He said that if he were free he would come after me. Viti: Did he ever speak about what would happen to him if he got caught?
Smart: He said that, well, there were several things he said. But he said he knew he would go to prison for what he had done. But then he also said that I would, myself and the other wives he was going to kidnap.
He said we would come and testify in his behalf. And that we would plead on his behalf. And he said that he would be released and he would be killed and lie dead in the street for three days and then he would be resurrected and he would go on to fight the Anti-Christ.
Especially people he may have wanted something from. Can you describe how he would relate to such people? Smart: He was very Viti: And during the times that you observed him engage in such behavior, did you believe that he was being sincere at those times? Viti: At any of these times that he engaged with others besides you or Ms. Barzee, did he ever proclaim that he was the Davidic king?
Viti: Did he ever proclaim he was the one mighty and strong? Viti: A prophet? Viti: Did he discuss polygamy with anyone?
Viti: Would he tell them to repent? Viti: Would you ever observe him with other people shutting his eyes, folding his hands and singing religious hymns? Smart: Not that I can recall.
Viti: Did the defendant ever discuss your family with you? Viti: In these discussions with your family, did he ever discuss how bad they might be feeling that you might be away from them?
Viti: In your discussions with him about your family, did he ever seem concerned over their heartbreak? Elizabeth Smart testifies in mental competency hearing of her Mormon polygamist abductor Testimony in competency hearing for Smart abductor indicates feigned mental illness to manipulate court proceedings Forced medication brings Smart abductor back to reality, but past abuses make her children still wary Smart abductor used similar manipulative cult techniques as other self-professed 'prophets'.
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