(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Elizabeth Smart Foundation has launched a series of self-defense classes at Southern Utah University in Cedar City. Smart said she founded the class to teach women and girls self-defense techniques in several disciplines, including Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The classes start this fall and are already […]
Utah kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart says she was sexually assaulted on an airplane last year. Smart said on “CBS This Morning” Thursday that she was sleeping when she felt someone’s hand rubbing her inner thigh. She says the last time someone touched her without permission was when she was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The father of Utah kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart has come out as gay, saying his decision brings challenges but also “huge relief.” Ed Smart said in a letter shared Friday with NBC’s “Today” showthat he no longer feels comfortable being a member of The Church of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who helped kidnap Utah’s Elizabeth Smart is living several blocks away from a Salt Lake City elementary school following her release from prison in September. Utah’s sex-offender registry lists 73-year-old Wanda Barzee as living in a house near the school. She was initially […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Teenage kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart has given birth to her third child. Smart announced the birth on her Instagram account on Monday with a picture of her holding new daughter Olivia as husband Matthew Gilmour looks on. In her post, Smart says “So happy to welcome Olivia […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Smart says she’s been assured that the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be watched when she’s released from prison. In an interview Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” Smart says she believes Wanda […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart says a woman who helped kidnap her when she 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted should be committed to a mental-health facility after she’s released from prison next week. Smart said Thursday she was shocked to find out about Wanda […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap Elizabeth Smart in 2002 will be freed from prison more than five years earlier than expected, a surprise decision that Smart called “incomprehensible” on Tuesday. Wanda Barzee, 72, will be released Sept. 19 after the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap then-Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 has been denied early parole. The decision announced Monday night by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole was expected after the 72-year-old […]
