Elizabeth Smart testifies

Elizabeth Smart, Mark Scharman, right, of the Salt Lake City Police Department, Louis Smart, her mother, and Richard Lambert of the U.S. Attorneys office, leave the Federal Court House after Smart testified for the first time since she was snatched from her girlhood bedroom seven years ago that her captor raped her three or four times a day, kept her tied up with a cable around her leg and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. (Oct. 1, 2009)

Elizabeth Smart at age 14, when she was abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night. In a surprising turn that transfixed the country, she was rescued in March 2003 after a motorist spotted her walking the streets of a Salt Lake City suburb with Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee.

Ed Smart walks with his daughter Elizabeth Smart during a White House signing ceremony for child safety laws (April 30, 2003).

Lois Smart, right, with daughter Smart, during a White House signing ceremony for child safety measures. (April 30, 2003)

Elizabeth Smart, who was reunited with her family on March 12 after being kidnapped, listens to President Bush speak at the White House. (April 30, 2003)

Defense attorney Robert Steele for Brian David Mitchell speaks to the media in front of the Federal Court House after Elizabeth Smart testified. Smart gave her horrifying account in federal court as part of a proceeding over whether Mitchell is mentally competent to stand trial. (Oct. 1, 2009)

Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, speaks to the media outside of the Federal Court House after his daughter testified. Smart testified that within hours of her 2002 kidnapping at knifepoint, she was led away to a secluded mountain campsite and in a quickie ceremony became the polygamous ?wife? of Brian David Mitchell, the self-described prophet accused of holding her captive for nine months. (Oct. 1, 2009)

Elizabeth Smart, Mark Scharman, right, of the Salt Lake City Police Department, Louis Smart, her mother, and Richard Lambert of the U.S. Attorneys office, leave the Federal Court House after Smart testified (Oct. 1, 2009)