Elizabeth Smart says abductor raped her daily

Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday she was raped repeatedly each day after she was abducted from her bedroom at age 14 and told she would be killed if she yelled or tried to escape.

She described street preacher Brian David Mitchell, her alleged kidnapper, as "evil, wicked, manipulative, stinky, slimy, selfish, not spiritual, not religious, not close to God."

Smart, now 21, testified for just under two hours in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah,as part of a competency proceeding for the man charged in her 2002 kidnapping. Mitchell has twice been found incompetent for trial in state court.

Smart was rescued nine months after her abduction at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City home when a motorist spotted her walking through a suburb with Mitchell and his estranged wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee.

Shortly after her abduction, Smart said Mitchell took her to a mountain camp and performed a ceremony she said was intended to marry the two."After that, he proceeded to rape me," Smart said.

She said he held her captive with a cable attached to her leg that had a three-metre reach. That line was attached to another cable strung between two trees.

Smart said Mitchell plied her with alcohol and drugs to lower her resistance and threatened to kill her if she tried toescape.She said Mitchell was motivated by sex and used religion to get what he wanted.

Mitchell's defence lawyershad sought to limit Smart's testimony to her experiences with Mitchell, without her opinions about his mental state.