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Police: Psychological Trauma Prevented Smart From Escaping
Aired March 14, 2003 - 05:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: More now on the homecoming for Elizabeth Smart. Police say psychological trauma prevented the teenager from escaping her captors. That's something that other children have faced in previous high profile kidnapping cases.
CNN's Jamie Colby takes a look at that part of the story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ED SMART, ELIZABETH'S FATHER: It's real! It's real!
JAMIE COLBY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Elizabeth Smart is home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want her to have privacy. We want her to have the opportunity to be reunited with her family.
COLBY: In seclusion for now, the 15-year-old must pick up where she left off.
SMART: Last night, when we got her home, we did a few things. Everyone was pleading with her to get on the harp and she struggled through a couple of pieces and says, well, it's been nine months.
COLBY: In 1973, 13-year-old Martin Andrews was kidnapped, shackled, repeatedly raped and buried in a box until he was rescued eight days later.
MARTIN ANDREWS: I've always known that it happened and it's always been a daily part of my life.
COLBY: Seven-year-old Steven Stayner's abductor gave him a new identity. After seven years, Stainer escaped in 1980 with a younger victim in tow.
STEVE STAYNER: When I disappeared, Steve Stayner died and Dennis Parnell was born, the name that I went by at the time. And then it's kind of like going back again trying to switch from Dennis Parnell back to Steve Stainer again.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He came back different, very different.
COLBY: For 16 days in 1992, 10-year-old Katie Beers was kidnapped and sexually abused by a family friend. Kept in an underground dungeon, she watched on closed circuit TV as police searched her kidnapper's home in vain. Beers later said it was those pictures and hope that kept her alive. Katie has changed her name and gone to college.
(on camera): In the days to come, we'll learn more about Elizabeth's condition and what she experienced at the hands of Brian Mitchell and Wanda Eileen Barzee. The question that may take years to answer, can Elizabeth put nine months of her life behind her, under the watchful eye of her parents, law enforcement, the media and the public?
Jamie Colby, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: We'll have even more on the Elizabeth case just ahead.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SMART: I don't know what her mindset was. I don't know what kind of hell she went through.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Coming up on DAYBREAK, more on what the teenager and her family might face in the days ahead.
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Aired March 14, 2003 - 05:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: More now on the homecoming for Elizabeth Smart. Police say psychological trauma prevented the teenager from escaping her captors. That's something that other children have faced in previous high profile kidnapping cases.
CNN's Jamie Colby takes a look at that part of the story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ED SMART, ELIZABETH'S FATHER: It's real! It's real!
JAMIE COLBY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Elizabeth Smart is home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want her to have privacy. We want her to have the opportunity to be reunited with her family.
COLBY: In seclusion for now, the 15-year-old must pick up where she left off.
SMART: Last night, when we got her home, we did a few things. Everyone was pleading with her to get on the harp and she struggled through a couple of pieces and says, well, it's been nine months.
COLBY: In 1973, 13-year-old Martin Andrews was kidnapped, shackled, repeatedly raped and buried in a box until he was rescued eight days later.
MARTIN ANDREWS: I've always known that it happened and it's always been a daily part of my life.
COLBY: Seven-year-old Steven Stayner's abductor gave him a new identity. After seven years, Stainer escaped in 1980 with a younger victim in tow.
STEVE STAYNER: When I disappeared, Steve Stayner died and Dennis Parnell was born, the name that I went by at the time. And then it's kind of like going back again trying to switch from Dennis Parnell back to Steve Stainer again.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He came back different, very different.
COLBY: For 16 days in 1992, 10-year-old Katie Beers was kidnapped and sexually abused by a family friend. Kept in an underground dungeon, she watched on closed circuit TV as police searched her kidnapper's home in vain. Beers later said it was those pictures and hope that kept her alive. Katie has changed her name and gone to college.
(on camera): In the days to come, we'll learn more about Elizabeth's condition and what she experienced at the hands of Brian Mitchell and Wanda Eileen Barzee. The question that may take years to answer, can Elizabeth put nine months of her life behind her, under the watchful eye of her parents, law enforcement, the media and the public?
Jamie Colby, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: We'll have even more on the Elizabeth case just ahead.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SMART: I don't know what her mindset was. I don't know what kind of hell she went through.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Coming up on DAYBREAK, more on what the teenager and her family might face in the days ahead.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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