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Elizabeth Smart: Breaking News about elizabeth smart in this article. Elizabeth Smart finally got his chance on Wednesday to face the street preacher convicted of maintaining captive and raped by several months when she was only 14 years. Now twenty three, she stood tall in the courtroom stoic, with an even voice and a might Brian David Mitchell obviously lacked. It took her about 30 seconds. I do not have much to say. I know what you did, "said Smart, who wears a houndstooth checked skirt, jacket and ivory beads.I know that you know that what you did was wrong. You did it with full knowledge. but I have a wonderful life now and no matter what you do, you will never affect me again. Mitchell, frail and skinny with a long, peppery white beard, sang hymns softly and closed his hollow eyes, just as he did throughout his trial, just as he would moments later as the judge gave him two life sentences without parole. That did not stop Smart from looking right at him and coolly speaking her piece. You took away nine months of my life that can never be returned. You will be responsible for these actions, either in this life or the next, and I hope you're ready when the time comes. "When the judge asked if he had anything to say, Mitchell, whose hands and feet bound, kept right on singing His strange behavior changed once during the hearing. As he was sentenced, sang louder. Mitchell's sentencing closed a major legal chapter in the heartbreaking ordeal that stalled for years after he was declared mentally ill and unfit to stand trial in state court. A federal jury in December unanimously convicted the 57 year-old of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines for sex. Outside the courtroom, a smiling Smart, now a music student at Brigham Young University, told reporters that the conviction "is the end of a long chapter and the beginning of a beautiful chapter of me." She said she wants to work with crime victims and others to provide support to the cause of missing children. Elizabeth Smart