Former Kidnapped Teen Elizabeth Smart Shares Her Harrowing Ordeal In 'My Story': 'You Can Never Judge A Victim Of Any Crime On What They Should Have Done’

Elizabeth Smart shared the true story behind her kidnapping and rape in her book My Story.

The 14 year old Elizabeth was kidnapped in June 2002 from her Salt Lake City home in the middle of the night. The kidnapper Brian Mitchell dragged her out of her bed at knife point, taking her all the way to a mountainside camp. Wenda Barzee, Mitchell’s wife, dressed in long robe, forced Elizabeth to undress and later performed a marriage ceremony.

The harrowing parts haven’t started still as Elizabeth Smart detailed her excruciating nine month long torture while in captivity.

Speaking to CNN, Ms. Smart said, "The next nine months, my days consisted of being hungry, of being bored to death because he talked nonstop always about himself," she said.

"I mean, talk about self-absorbed. And then my days consisted of being raped. I mean, not just once, multiple times a day."

Mitchell and Barzee had later tied her to a tree, fed her alcohol forcibly and molested her multiple times, all the while terrifying against crying out or trying to escape.

Ms. Smart was rescued in March, 2003 after nine month long ordeal in captivity. Upon her rescue, people wondered and questioned why did she not try to escape or why did she tell the detective at the library that she was not the detective girl.

Elizabeth retorted to these questions 10 years later saying, “You can never judge a child or a victim of any crime on what they should have done, because you weren't there and you don't know and you have no right just to sit in your armchair at home and say 'Well, why didn't you escape? Why didn't you do this?' I mean, they just don't know."

Elizabeth ‘Survivor’ Smart was scared that the couple would kill her or harm her family.

“And I was 14. I was a little girl. And I had seen this man successfully kidnap me, he successfully chained me up, he successfully raped me, he successfully did all of these things. What was to say that he wouldn't kill me when he'd make those threats to me? What was to say that he wouldn't kill my family?” as stated in her CNN interview

Elizabeth’s story is a tale of survival that motivates millions of children and adults around the world who have been or perhaps who are being subjected to sexual abuse.