The kidnapper who held Elizabeth Smart captivates for 9 months arrested after the police said that the sex offender visited Salt Lake City Parks

• Wanda Barzee would have visited two parks in Salt Lake City in April

• Police charged it on Thursday, May 1 for violating the terms of their parole as a sex offender

• Barzee held Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months and was released from prison in 2018

The woman who held Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months and facilitated her husband's sexual assault on the teenager violate the conditions of his release.

Wanda Barzee, 79, was arrested on the morning of Thursday, May 1 by Salt Lake City police after being discovered that she had visited local parks.

Brent Weisberg, spokesperson for the Salt Lake City police department, told People that Barzee was sentenced to Salt Lake County Metro prison for “a head of violation of the UTAH law restricting the registered sex offenders from the entry into the protected areas, including public parks”.

This arrest came after “detectives developed information that Barzee would have visited at least two parks in Salt Lake City, including Liberty Park and Sugar House Park, in violation of the state law,” said Weisberg.

Barzee is no longer in detention, the judicial files showing that his release came under judicial orders.

She and her husband Brian David Mitchell kidnapped Smart in 2002 and held her captive for almost a year, moving between dilapidated houses and abandoned campsites in Utah and the San Diego region.

The couple was arrested in 2003 and a judge judged that Barzee could be released from prison in 2018.

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This decision was not suitable for Smart, who was very a view to the fact that she considered that Barzee was just as guilty of what happened to her as her husband and a threat to society.

She said in several interviews at the time that Barzee was a “diabolical woman”.

Mitchell removed smart from Knifepoint from his house to Salt Lake City after climbing the window of his room.

During the following nine months, Smart was retained in captivity by Mitchell and Barzee and subject to almost daily sexual assault.

Smart previously discussed Barzee's participation in assaults, saying that she would encourage her husband and would often be present while the teenager was abused by Mitchell.

The public was alerted to the identity of Mitchell and Barzee after Smart's sister, who witnessed the kidnapping, recalled that the man whose voice she had heard that night was the same man who had already been hired to work at the family's home.

Photos of Mitchell and Barzee then run The most sought after in America Around the same time, the two began to appear in public with Smart, which finally led a person to recognize the pair and to contact the authorities.

Smart was rescued on March 12, 2003, just over nine months after taking his room on June 5, 2002.

Mitchell was sentenced to life in federal prison while Barzee served 15 years for his role in the operation.

The SLCP says that it will continue to monitor this situation in the future as part of a joint effort with other agencies.

“Although criminal proceedings in this case remain our priority, our SLCPD social workers and our intervention detectives in the event of a crisis will continue to use our co-response model to ensure that appropriate security resources and security plans are made available as the case is progressing in the judicial system,” said Weisberg.

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