Woman pleads guilty, apologizes in Smart abduction

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SALT LAKE CITY — Seven years after she was abducted at knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart finally has an apology — and a guilty plea — from one of her kidnappers.

"I am so sorry, Elizabeth, for all the pain and suffering I have caused you and your family," Wanda Eileen Barzee, 64, said Tuesday. "It is my hope that you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me."

The appeal came minutes after Barzee pleaded guilty to federal charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor in U.S. District Court.

She also said she was "humbled as I realize how much Elizabeth Smart has been victimized and the role that I played in it."

Smart, now 22 and preparing to serve a mission in Paris for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was not in court to hear the apology. But her father, Ed Smart, said outside court that forgiveness was possible.

"Absolutely," he said. "We all make mistakes in life ... and if we can't forgive each other, heaven help us."

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I'm sorry, even after all this time, if it had been my child, forgiveness would be very difficult to find.

[Lord Undies]

To beg for forgiveness shows weakness.  To grant forgiveness shows divinity.  I am not divine.  I am selfish.  I would forgive her for what that forgiveness would do for me. 

[Ptarmigan]

I would forgive when she dies and begs for it.

[Eupher]

Wanda Eileen Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison. That puts her at 79 years old when she gets out, if she isn't paroled first.

But she is going to testify against her husband, Brian David Mitchell, who was the animal who forced himself on this stunningly beautiful girl. He's the animal that needs to be put down like the vermin he is.

I was in Salt Lake City when this kidnapping occurred. Bizarre to say the least.

LA Slimes

[NHSparky]

Seven years after the fact is seven years too late to apologize.

Rot in hell, ya psycho bitch, and drag that nutbag with you.