Elizabeth Smart’s life changed in 2002. While she was innocently minding her own business at her family’s Salt Lake City home in Utah, a kidnapper abducted her.
And for the next nine months, she battled against her kidnappers in an effort not only to escape their clutches but to survive the ordeal intact.
When this was all happening, Smart was just fourteen-years-old hardly old enough to face such a challenge. Read the full story here ▶