Elizabeth Smart
News and information about activist and philanthropist Elizabeth Smart, who is a child abduction and sexual violence survivor
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Tuesday nominated the Utah Court of Appeals judge to replace Justice Deno Himonas on the Utah Supreme Court. Her nomination requires a vote by Utah lawmakers.
The organizations’ combined resources will be used to create awareness about how to recognize and combat sexual violence and exploitation.
Elizabeth Smart appeared on ‘Red Table Talk’ to speak about the Gabby Petito case.
Survivors and Utah’s congressional delegates discussed what can be done to fight human trafficking during the Human Trafficking Policy and Education Summit at the Malouf Foundation in Logan.
Smart recently appeared on “The Masked Dancer.”
“I thought, ‘I live a pretty serious life, and I’m going to take this opportunity and just have fun,’” Smart told the show’s host.
She launches new defense program after feeling disappointed she didn’t do more
‘I thought Elizabeth’s ordeal was very difficult, but this one is more difficult,’ he said
The country can use more Elizabeth Smarts — an unwavering understanding that present circumstances don’t need to determine the future.
Early in the morning of June 5, 2002, Brian David Mitchell cut through a window screen, broke into Edward and Lois Smart’s home, and forced 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her home in Federal Heights to a camp in the woods on the outskirts of Salt
“Where does your hope and resilience come from?” This question served as the catalyst for Elizabeth Smart’s most recent book, “Where There’s Hope: Healing, Moving Forward and Never Giving Up.”
Separated at last from the man who had held her captive, continuously raped her and threatened to kill her for the past nine months, Elizabeth Smart still did not have the courage to tell the police officers that had just handcuffed her and put her into the back of a patrol car who she really was.