Transcript: Elizabeth Smart Describes Ordeal Of Rape, Abuse

ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
10-01-2009
Elizabeth Smart Describes Ordeal Of Rape, Abuse

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Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

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Seven years ago, the abduction of a Utah girl, Elizabeth Smart, made headlines worldwide. Today she spoke for the first time in public about her ordeal. Smart testified in a federal court in Salt Lake City for an hour and 40 minutes. She described in painful detail her nine months in captivity.

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