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Fiend raped Smart day after day

2 October 2009

Seven years after being abducted by a sex-obsessed, religious zealot in Utah, a poised and beautiful Elizabeth Smart calmly testified for the first time yesterday -- laying out in harrowing detail her nine-month ordeal of rape and abuse.

Now 21, the angelic Mormon harpist described how in 2002 she went from an innocent 14-year-old girl asleep in her bed to being subjected to daily sexual assaults and religious brainwashings by Brian David Mitchell, who kept her bound to a tree and plied her with drugs and alcohol.

All the while, the creepy, wild-bearded, self-proclaimed prophet claimed that raping her up to four times a day was for the greater glory of God.

"Anything I showed resistance or hesitation to, he would turn to me and say, 'The Lord has commanded you to do this, you have to experience the lowest form of humanity to experience the highest," Smart testified in Salt Lake City federal court.

"He was religious, but not spiritual, not Christ-like," she said. "He used religion to get what he wanted."

Speaking calmly, Smart began her testimony by recalling the night of June 5, 2002, when she woke up in her family's Salt Lake City home with something cold pressed to her neck and a bearded man standing above her.

"He came into my room and held a knife to my throat and threatened me with my life and my family's life to come with him," she said.

"He placed his hand on my chest. He then put the knife up to my neck and he told me to get up quietly and if I didn't then he would kill me and my family," she said.

Smart said Mitchell -- dressed in sweat pants, a ski hat and tennis shoes -- ordered her to dress and said he was taking her hostage for ransom.

Still holding the knife to her neck, Mitchell forced her to march three miles through a canyon behind her house to a campsite where his wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee, waited for them. There, Barzee prepared Smart for a "marriage ceremony."

"He took me inside where Wanda then tried to force me to bathe. After arguing with her, she eventually just proceeded to wash my feet and told me to change out of my pajamas into a robe-type of garment," Smart said. "When I refused, she said if I didn't she would have Brian Mitchell come rip my pajamas off. I put the robe on and he came and performed a ceremony which was to marry me to him."

"After that, he proceeded to rape me," Smart said.

She said Mitchell forced her to drink alcohol and take drugs to make her less resistant to his sleazy sexual advances and would make her look at pornography and insisted she "be humble" to him.

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I think the *way* the media is sensationalizing this matter is downright offensive and appalling.

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Church of Morman is the original Church of SciFi... a sex-crazed Church of SciFi.

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