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Elizabeth Smart Cries Describing Her Abduction And Rape

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Dec. 15 2011, Published 3:00 p.m. ET

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By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter

Elizabeth Smart cried this week while speaking publicly about her harrowing ordeal at the hands of a kidnapper, and Breaking Celebrity News has the moving video.

The 24-year-old spoke at the Salt Lake City Rotary Club on Tuesday about the night she was kidnapped in 2002 at knifepoint from her home by Brian David Mitchell.  She is working with the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and the program RadKIDS that empowers children to protect themselves from danger. 

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“He went straight from marrying me to raping me. And after that moment I couldn’t feel more worthless and more degraded,” she said as she wiped tears away from her eyes. “It was the worse feeling I could have ever felt.”

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“I don’t want another child to feel like I felt. I don’t want another child to feel worthless,” she said, giving her r