Girl who held Elizabeth Sensible captive for months is arrested after visiting park

The lady who kidnapped and held Elizabeth Sensible captive for 9 months within the early 2000s was arrested in Utah this week after visiting no less than two parks, which she will be able to’t do due to her standing as a intercourse offender.

Wanda Barzee, 79, was arrested at her Salt Lake Metropolis house Thursday and was booked on one rely of violating her standing as a intercourse offender in Utah, a spokesperson for the Salt Lake Metropolis Police Division mentioned Friday.

Utah regulation prohibits registered intercourse offenders from getting into protected areas, together with public parks.

Detectives with the Salt Lake Police Division obtained data that Barzee had allegedly visited no less than two parks within the metropolis — Liberty Park and Sugar Home Park — in April, police spokesperson Brent Weisberg mentioned.

Information from the Salt Lake County Metro Jail point out Barzee is now not in custody. It was not instantly clear if she was launched on bail or if she has authorized illustration.

Weisberg mentioned within the assertion that court docket data present she was launched on judicial orders.

Barzee was convicted of state and federal crimes, and in 2010 was sentenced to fifteen years in federal jail for her position within the abduction. She was launched from jail in 2018

Barzee’s husband, Brian David Mitchell, is serving a life sentence for Sensible’s kidnapping and assaults.

Sensible was taken at knifepoint from her Salt Lake Metropolis bed room in 2002. The teenager’s kidnapping and disappearance garnered media consideration and headlines throughout the globe.

9 months after she was kidnapped, Sensible was seen strolling the streets of a Salt Lake Metropolis suburb with Mitchell.

She has mentioned her time in captivity included repeated sexual assaults by Mitchell. Whan Barzee was launched from jail, Sensible mentioned that in her time in captivity, the girl would “encourage her husband to proceed to rape me.”

Sensible, now 37, has since develop into an outspoken advocate in opposition to baby abduction and sexual violence.