Elizabeth Smart was 14 when she was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom on June 4, 2002. The Utah teen was held in captivity for nine months by homeless preacher and self-avowed prophet Brian ...

— -- Children's rights activist Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted and held captive for nine months as a teenager, sent a message to the 13 siblings who were freed on Sunday from alleged ...

Abducted at 14, hidden in plain sight, and forced into silence—Elizabeth Smart endured 9 months of horror. But what happened ...

Elizabeth Smart is using her traumatic kidnapping experience to empower other women, she tells In Touch in an exclusive interview. “That is a huge part of my life, and it’s very, very ...

Elizabeth Smart at her home in Wasatch County, Utah, on March 8, 2023. Twenty years ago she was freed from a nine-month-long kidnapping. ( Chad Kirkland for The Washington Post ) ...

Elizabeth Smart talked directly to her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell in a Salt Lake City, Utah federal court. She told the man, moments before he was sentenced to life in prison, "I know that you ...

Elizabeth Smart, the woman who has championed child safety after she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted as a teenager, has founded a self-defense initiative on the heels of another harrowing ...

Elizabeth Smart was just 14 when she was abducted from her bedroom in 2002.She went through a harrowing nine months in captivity, suffering terrible abuse at the hands of two predators.

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped in 2002 by Wanda Barzee and her husband Brian David Mitchell, reacted to Barzee’s recent arrest for violating the terms of her sex offender status.

Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, right, speaks to a packed crowd at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver during the National Women’s Coalition Against Violence and Exploitation’s Java for ...

Elizabeth Smart, 15-year-old girl kidnapped from her Salt Lake City, Utah, home 9 months ago, is found alive in nearby city of Sandy, Utah; ...