

"We want all of those people that have been victimized out there to be survivors," he told the outlet. He spoke to while visiting east Idaho to attend a screening of a documentary about child sex trafficking. Her father also became a child safety advocate. It is disgusting and it is an abuse that anyone should despise. After her horrific ordeal, she launched the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which provides resources to help locate missing children and stop sex-trafficking of kids. Elizabeths father, Ed Smart, also addressed Mitchell, saying, 'Your perversion and exploitation of religion is not a defense.
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Smart's kidnapping story made international headlines and inspired the 2003 TV movie, The Elizabeth Smart Story. His wife received a 15-year jail sentence. Her abductor was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity. She was freed and they were arrested after people identified her while seeing the three walking near Salt Lake City. She was subjected to sexual assaults throughout her nine-month captivity, during which she was forced to wear a disguise in public and wander with her captor and his wife. Smart was abducted from her parent's home almost exactly 13 years ago in 2002 by a homeless street preacher. Her younger sister, Mary Katherine, is also. Ed's confirmation of Chloe's birth comes weeks after he shared a public post showing a picture of himself with a baby girl on social media. Smart is jolted awake in the early-morning hours by a knife pressed to her throat and a voice ordering her out of bed. This is something she is keeping to herself and not trying to have out there."Įlizabeth, now 27, married Matthew Gilmour, a Scottish man she met while on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission, in a small wedding ceremony at a Mormon temple in Hawaii in 2012. He also said Elizabeth's daughter is his third grandchild and told The Salt Lake City Tribune that the media learning about Chloe three months after her birth could be "just what Elizabeth wanted," saying, "It is totally private. "Elizabeth is great," Smart recently told . "She just had a little baby girl about three months ago. The news was revealed by Elizabeth's father, Ed Smart.

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her Utah home at age 14 and then became an activist for missing children, gave birth to her first child in February.
