Elizabeth Smart told jurors Monday as she awoke with a cold knife in the throat and the kidnapping of his first thought 2002 was a nightmare."It 's been an indescribable fear," he said on the stand during the first day of testimony in the federal trial of Salt Lake City for Brian David Mitchell, who is accused of kidnapping and the illegal transportation of a minor.
The case resumed after an appeals court rejected the request to remove the case from Utah.Smart, 14, was taken when he described his abduction of nine months, even when he was awakened by the voice of a man.
"I remember he had a knife to her throat, no sound out of bed and come with me or I'll kill you and your family," he said. Smart, now 23, said he was sleeping during the first threat."Then I heard again and I wake up," he said.
"I'm not sure I can describe what I did differently than me, how deadly the situation could be heard. I was very scared."
Smart said he got up and grabbed her by the arm and led her into a closet, was put on tennis shoes and left the house, his parents and siblings - including a 9 year old sister's bed.
"I said that I took as hostages for ransom. I was surprised. I have a nightmare, convinced the jury. The first witness Monday was his mother, Lois Smart, who took Mitchell to act as a homeless street preacher Emanuel "the artisans who work in the family home in the fall of 2001.
Lois Smart told the jury that she and her children Mitchell met in the streets of downtown Salt Lake City and one of his children, he asked for money."It looked like a clean cut, well, that was down on their luck, they need to help continue his life. I had five dollars," he said.
Smart Lois Mitchell, the family's address and phone number and give you the opportunity to recruit employees. Mitchell, she immediately called her husband, Ed Smart, Mitchell for a couple of days after reaching a leaking roof, repairing what went well, "said Lois Smart.
"I remember a conversation with him, hoping that it would be more work to do. It looked good," he said.
Mitchell, a single project for the family, was clean-shaven at the time, but now has a gray beard in the middle of the chest and long hair in the middle of the back.
Smart Lois also reminded jurors of the night was taken to his daughter. She had another daughter, Mary Catherine, who was 9 at the time of waking and sleeping with Elizabeth. Mary Katherine was a baby blanket wrapped around the head and neck and looked "like a scared rabbit."
"He said a man had taken Elizabeth with a firearm or not. 'S led to this blackmail and kidnappings for ransom," Lois recalls Mary Katherine Smart, now 18, says.
Lois Smart said down to the kitchen and immediately saw the window was open and the screen was cut in the shape of U.
"My heart sank and I cried for Ed, called 911, is gone," said Lois Smart.
"It 's been full of terror'. Was the worst feeling to know that I do not know where my baby. I could not do anything. "
Elizabeth Smart testified that he had left the window open, because his mother and burned the potatoes for dinner and the smoke remains.
A lawyer, Mitchell said in opening statements in the escalation of mental illness and religious fundamentalism, thinking about what God wanted him to do so was made.
Public Defender Douglas Parker did not dispute the facts but disagreed with the statement of the accusation that Mitchell was scheduled to charge the person kidnapped.
"His life is characterized by a strong set of idiosyncratic beliefs. This is, as you can see a model with Brian, looking for a deep bond and the conviction that something is worth and purpose in life is found" Douglas said.
If found guilty, the rest of his life in federal prison Mitchell.Smart was found in March 2003 after motorists saw her walking in a suburb of Salt Lake City with Mitchell.
Prosecutors said Smart will provide jurors with a long and detailed statement about his kidnapping, the alleged sexual assault of nine months imprisonment and threats Mitchell said he gave his life and his family.
Smart is serving on a trip to the French mission of the Church of Jesus Christ, but plans for her musical studies at Brigham Young University will continue next year.