Anti-porn organization Fight the New Drug posted a video Friday featuring Elizabeth Smart, the Utah woman who was abducted from her bedroom as a 14-year-old girl and kept captive for nine months just two miles from her parents' Salt Lake City home.
It marked the first time Smart opened up about this particular part of her abduction.
Looking at "hard core pornography [...] just led to [my captor] raping me more, more than he already did, which was a lot," a now 28-year-old Smart says in the video. She says her captor, Brian David Mitchell, would show her graphic sexual images before assaulting her.
"My captor was really excited and really kind of amped up about something, and he said, ‘Oh, you know, I have something and I’m going to show it to you, and you have to look at it.
"I cannot say he would not have gone out and kidnapped me had he not looked at pornography," Smart says in the video, refusing to refer to her captor by name. "All I know is that pornography made my living hell worse."
In the years since she was rescued, Smart has become a vocal advocate for child safety, creating the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and promoting child welfare legislation like the Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act.
