Elizabeth Smart

And was there something about her with Brian Mitchell that made her dangerous?

Do you think she's a danger on her own?

I was disappointed.

I was very disappointed.

It made my husband and I, you know,

Completely redo all of our security, completely rethink about where we were living.

Just kind of take sort of every aspect of our lives into account again, you know, into safety review.

It was a disappointment.

It was a disappointment to see that she was released.

And honestly, it still is because she never stood up for me.

You know, she was right there watching me be raped.

And she had been married before.

She had a prior marriage in which she had six children of her own.

And they were all older than me.

And yet she was still okay with watching me.

Honestly, this little girl being raped.

And so in my mind, that just makes me feel like she was every bit as guilty as Brian Mitchell.

And so for me, when she was released, I felt like it was...

you know, the legal system letting me down.

But I will say that it also gave me a, not that I didn't already have compassion for all of these victims who never see any form of justice or where their perpetrators just get like a slap on the wrist or nothing happens.