how old was elizabeth smart when she was kidnapped

Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City on June 5, 2002.

Quick Scoop: Core Fact

• Elizabeth Smart was abducted in the early hours of June 5, 2002, at age 14.

• She was taken from the bedroom she shared with her younger sister in her family’s home in Utah.

• Her kidnapping and nine‑month captivity later became one of the most widely reported missing-child cases in the United States.

Brief context

• Elizabeth Ann Smart (now Elizabeth Ann Gilmour) was born November 3, 1987, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Because she was born in late 1987 and kidnapped in June 2002, she was still 14 at the time of the abduction.

• She was rescued on March 12, 2003, still a teenager, after being recognized in public with her captors.

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