Sunday marks the 20th anniversary since Elizabeth Smart was rescued from her nine-month abduction. She continues working to prevent girls and women from being exploited and abused.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Elizabeth Smart Foundation's namesake was bouncing from one interview to another Tuesday at the foundation's headquarters in Trolley Square.Smart was rescued after being kidnapped from her bedroom in 2002
"It is a great day and it's the anniversary of a very happy day. But I mean, also, it has been 20 years. And I think the best way for me to honor that anniversary is to live. And that's what I'm doing. When I'm done here, I'll go home and probably have time to make my kids their after-school snack and then pick them up and take my daughter to dance and make dinner and probably do a couple of loads of laundry. It'll just be a day.
Smart says sharing her story during speaking engagements is great, but not enough. "I wanted to arm these women with something so they have a way to respond back." But while Smart is very active today in working to prevent other girls and women from being exploited and abused, her advocacy work didn't really start in earnest until afterSmart is quick to point out that several years went by from the time she had been rescued to the time Mitchell was convicted.
"I felt like so much that I had never spoken about to anyone came out during the trial, like there were things I never told my parents about, there were things I never talked about with anyone," Smart added. "And they all came out during the trial. And when it came out, I felt like, 'Well, it's all out there now. I might as well do something with it. There are very few secrets left. I might as well do something with it.
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