Elizabeth Smart testifies at trial
5:08 PM Thursday Nov 11, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink Elizabeth Smart has testified that the street preacher accused of kidnapping her in 2002 frequently prayed that the teenager would fulfil her marital duty of having sex – something she said was “about the farthest thing” from her prayers. Smart took the stand a third day and gave a spirited rejection of Brian David Mitchell’s defence contention that he suffers from an escalating mental illness and holds extreme religious beliefs that lead him to think he is directed by God. Mitchell was a crude, vulgar, self-serving person who used religion to justify his actions, including her kidnapping and rape over nine months, she said,…
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