Elizabeth Smart

I'd watch them do it for nine months, how they'd get away with whatever they wanted by claiming God commanded them or saying it was part of their religion.

And I think you'd find with most rapists, it's not so much the uncontrollable need for sex.

It's the power and control over another person that they want more than anything.

And that's what they wanted was power and control.

So I remember just thinking, well, if they can do this and get away with it, why can't I?

I can only try.

What's the worst thing that can happen?

I guess they could kill me.

At least I wouldn't be with them.

Right.

And so I thought, I'm just going to give it a try.

And so I went to him and I was just like, oh, I just have this feeling.

I know it sounds so crazy.

God would never speak to me.

I am so sinful.

I am just so filthy.

He had forced me to drink so many beers one night, not that far away from home.

This day that I'm talking to him where I'd ended up throwing up because I was a 15 year old girl at this point.

And he just left me there.

And so like I woke up the next morning, my face was all crusted to the ground and throw up and it was all in my hair.