10 December 2010 Last updated at 22:03 GMT
"A jury has convicted an itinerant street preacher of ********** and transporting for sex a 14-year-old girl from Utah in 2002. Elizabeth Smart, now 23, attended the whole trial and testified against Mitchell"
"'Nine months of hell'
Over several days of compelling testimony, Ms Smart said the couple had held her through "nine months of hell" in a mountain-side camp.
Mitchell ****** her into a self-styled polygamous marriage and ***** her almost daily, gave her ******* and ***** to lower her resistance and threatened to **** her, her ****** and anyone who tried to rescue her, prosecutors said.
Elizabeth Smart Elizabeth Smart, now 23, attended the whole trial and testified against Mitchell
During the ordeal Mitchell preached his bizarre religious ideas to the teenager, and diary entries she kept show that before long she came to absorb them, at least on the surface, prosecutors said.
But Ms Smart testified that Mitchell's religious claims were an effort to placate Barzee, his wife of nearly two decades, who was distraught he was having sex with the young girl.
Ms Smart said Mitchell had been motivated by **** and ******* use and a desire for sex, not religious fervour."
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"A jury has convicted an itinerant street preacher of ********** and transporting for sex a 14-year-old girl from Utah in 2002. Elizabeth Smart, now 23, attended the whole trial and testified against Mitchell"
"'Nine months of hell'
Over several days of compelling testimony, Ms Smart said the couple had held her through "nine months of hell" in a mountain-side camp.
Mitchell ****** her into a self-styled polygamous marriage and ***** her almost daily, gave her ******* and ***** to lower her resistance and threatened to **** her, her ****** and anyone who tried to rescue her, prosecutors said.
Elizabeth Smart Elizabeth Smart, now 23, attended the whole trial and testified against Mitchell
During the ordeal Mitchell preached his bizarre religious ideas to the teenager, and diary entries she kept show that before long she came to absorb them, at least on the surface, prosecutors said.
But Ms Smart testified that Mitchell's religious claims were an effort to placate Barzee, his wife of nearly two decades, who was distraught he was having sex with the young girl.
Ms Smart said Mitchell had been motivated by **** and ******* use and a desire for sex, not religious fervour."
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