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Smart says she is thrilled after guilty verdict
SALT LAKE CITY – Elizabeth Smart waited more than eight years for the word she heard Friday. "Guilty," after a federal jury deliberated five hours to convict street preacher Brian David Mitchell of snatching Smart from her bed, at knifepoint in the dead of night, and repeatedly raping her while he held her captive for nine months.
Smart smiled as the verdict was read, while a bedraggled, bearded Mitchell sat at the defense table, singing hymns with his hands before his chest, as if in prayer.
"I hope that not only is this an example that justice can be served in America, but that it is possible to move on after something terrible has happened," Smart said, after she walked arm-in-arm with her mother through a crush of media.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101210/ap_on_re_us/us_elizabeth_smart
i can't even begin to understand what she went through...i am amazed, at least publicly, how strong she is and how well she has weathered such outrageous violations
imo...rapists deserve life without the possibility of parole
SALT LAKE CITY – Elizabeth Smart waited more than eight years for the word she heard Friday. "Guilty," after a federal jury deliberated five hours to convict street preacher Brian David Mitchell of snatching Smart from her bed, at knifepoint in the dead of night, and repeatedly raping her while he held her captive for nine months.
Smart smiled as the verdict was read, while a bedraggled, bearded Mitchell sat at the defense table, singing hymns with his hands before his chest, as if in prayer.
"I hope that not only is this an example that justice can be served in America, but that it is possible to move on after something terrible has happened," Smart said, after she walked arm-in-arm with her mother through a crush of media.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101210/ap_on_re_us/us_elizabeth_smart
i can't even begin to understand what she went through...i am amazed, at least publicly, how strong she is and how well she has weathered such outrageous violations
imo...rapists deserve life without the possibility of parole