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Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in 2002 by Brian David Mitchell, a religious fanatic who had previously done work around the house for Smart's family

Then 14, Smart was held for 9 months

She was freed in 2003 when people who saw her story on 'America's Most Wanted' called police

Elizabeth Smart says the couple who kidnapped and abused her remind her in striking ways of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — another powerful pair accused of exploiting vulnerable girls for years.

Smart was just 14 years old when Brian David Mitchell broke into her Salt Lake City, Utah, home in 2002 and kidnapped her at knifepoint in her bedroom while her little sister pretended to be asleep.

For nine long months, Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee , held her captive

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