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Why does Elizabeth Smart say brian david mitchell did to her daily?

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Why does Elizabeth Smart say brian david mitchell did to her daily?

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Elizabeth Smart testified today she was raped “on a daily basis up to three or four times” by Brian David Mitchell, the homeless preacher who allegedly kidnapped Smart when she was 14 and held her captive for nine months. Smart was never face to face in court with Mitchell, who was removed from the courtroom with his hands and feet shackled after he refused the judge’s orders to stop singing a church hymn. Smart, who is now 21, testified that on the first night she was taken from her home in 2002 she was guided on a three-mile hike to a canyon behind her home where Mitchell performed an impromptu wedding ceremony. “He performed a ceremony to marry me to him and after that he proceeded to rape me,” said Smart, clad in a white blouse and black pants. Smart never became emotional during her two hours of testimony and remained poised, clenching her fists as she spoke. Mitchell kept Smart from escaping by attaching chains around her ankles and tying them to nearby trees. He would wear the k

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