Elizabeth Smart

Are they in jail?

They are in jail.

Well, I mean, they're in the state hospital for some of it.

They're in jail for some of it.

The statute of limitations comes up in Utah.

It has to be moved to the federal courts because otherwise he's going to walk free.

What?

Yeah.

I was rescued in March.

I remember my parents asking like, what do you want to do?

I was like, I want to see my friends.

I want to go back to school.

I had a lot of FOMO.

Parents were like, you can't go back to school yet.

So I went back to school in the fall.

Yeah.

My mom basically said that.

I was offered everything, but I did not know what therapy was.

I'd say it had like a pretty negative connotation attached to it.

back then too i just knew it was something that psychiatrists did and i had such a bad experience at the children's justice center with psychiatrists a few days after i was rescued because we were told if i talked to them they could stand as proxy for me during the trial that of course did not happen but i'd just been kidnapped by a middle-aged white man claiming god commanded him to