Brian David Mitchell’s Case of 2002

"I was still a person of worth ... I decided to live." After eight years traumatic experience this was the statement of Elizabeth Smart in the proceeding of her case against Brian David Mitchell at the court in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Brian David Mitchell is accused of abducting the then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002. Smart says that the accused Mitchell told her that he really loves her the moment he first saw her. She said that it was in the fall of 2001 with her mother, they saw Mitchell outside the mall and her mother gave him five bucks and hired him to do simple house repair. But then Brian David kidnapped Elizabeth Smart for nine months, "sealed" her to him as his wife and raped her.

To do a background check on Brian David Mitchell he had his wife Wanda Barzee which was also became part of abducting Elizabeth which was a minor on her age. Elizabeth stated what these two did to her, she stated that she was being raped “daily at a very least” tethered between two trees "like an animal," and forced to watch and participate in sex acts of this two. She said she was forced to smoke cigarettes and drink wine and "hard liquor." Mitchell’s attorney Parker Douglas appealed on the jury that his client was not responsible for what he did but say that his client was insane at the time of the alleged abduction, and therefore not responsible for his actions. He also described his client as a “crazy person who comes in the middle of the night" -- exactly what we are taught to fear as children, he said.

But the evidences was strong enough to plead the accused as guilty, and then Barzee, 64, pleaded guilty in November 2009 to kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor in federal court and was sentenced in May to 15 years in federal prison. As part her plea agreement she agreed to cooperate in the state and federal cases against her husband.

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