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Homeless street preacher Brian David Mitchell will spend life behind bars for kidnapping 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002 to make the girl a plural wife.
U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball handed down the prison sentence Wednesday after hearing attorneys debate what type of sentence the 57-year-old should receive and testimony from the now 23-year-old Smart herself.
In handing down the life term, Kimball said the crime was "an unusually heinous and degrading set of circumstances. A life sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime."
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