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Brian David Mitchell Trial - Elizabeth Smart testified that Brian David Mitchell made her take "the sacrament," forcing her to drink wine, eat some food and then later sexually assaulting her.

Mitchell forced the then-14-year-old girl to drink more wine, but did not bless it. He drank an entire bottle of wine, she said.

"Before this time, had you ever drank alcohol before?" federal prosecutor Felice Viti asked.

"No."

"How did you feel?"

"Not normal. I felt everything just sort of dulled and my senses were dulled," she said.

"Ms. Smart, after the first time you drank alcohol, were there other occasions where he forced you to drink?"

"Yes," she said, describing how he would go into the city 3-4 times a week and return with wine, rum, vodka, gin, scotch or whiskey. "A lot."

"Did he bless the gin before he forced you to drink it?" Viti asked.

"No," she said, repeating it for every type of alcohol described by prosecutors.

She was also forced to smoke cigarettes, she testified.

"He said that in order to rise above all things I had to sink below all things first, and that included smoking," Smart testified, describing how he forced her to take a hand-rolled cigarette.

She said she didn't really inhale the cigarette smoke.

On the Fourth of July, Smart said that Mitchell untethered her and let her watch the fireworks from the top of the mountain. But he had a warning: "He told me not to run away, or I'd be killed. He told me that my family would be killed as well."

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