Elizabeth was 14 years old when she is abducted from her home on June 5, 2002.

For the next nine months, she endured daily sexual assault, starvation, and abuse at the hands of her captors.

Fortunately, due in large part to help from active bystanders,

the police safely returned Elizabeth back to her family in March 12, 2003.

In this episode, Elizabeth discusses her work at the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to bring hope to sexual assault through education, healing, and advocacy.

Listen as Elizabeth discusses the role acted bystanders had in her rescue, how pornography

aided in her grooming and abuse, and the importance of having open and honest conversations

with your children about the dangers online. With that, let's jump into the conversation.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Elizabeth. We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming. Elizabeth, thank you so much for sharing some of your time with us today.

I am personally really excited to get to talk with you more about the amazing work that you and your team are doing at the Elizabeth Smart Foundation.

And I think our audience is really going to benefit from hearing

your unique perspectives and the insight that you can offer on these issues. So thank you so much.

Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. To just dive right in, for anyone who is maybe less

familiar with your story, can you tell us a little bit about yourself,

who you are, kind of how you got involved in this work that you're doing today?

As you said, most people would know me from my 2002 abduction. I grew up in Salt Lake City,

Utah. I grew up in a nice neighborhood. I don't think anyone ever thought anything bad happened in Salt Lake City, Utah. I grew up in a nice neighborhood. I don't think anyone ever thought

anything bad happened in Salt Lake, definitely not in my neighborhood. At least if things were

happening that were bad, it was always behind closed doors. It was not public knowledge. And so it was

shocking. It was a complete shock to everyone when I was kidnapped out of my house, out of my bed, in the middle of the night at knife point.

That was certainly nothing that I ever dreamed would happen to me and certainly nothing my family ever dreamed that would happen to us.

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