Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper must have no contact with the victim after she's released from jail early on Wednesday - or she'll find herself back behind bars.
Wanda Barzee will walk free from jail on Wednesday after serving 15 years behind bars for snatching Smart as a teenager and keeping her in the woods to be raped daily until she was saved by strangers.
Barzee, 72, will be placed on supervised release for five years by the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System after her release with strict conditions. One of those terms of release includes no contact, of any form, with Smart, TMZ reports.
Elizabeth Smart's (pictured) kidnapper must have no contact with the victim after she's released from jail early on Wednesday - or she'll find herself back behind bars
Wanda Barzee will walk free from jail on Wednesday after serving 15 years behind bars for snatching Smart as a teenager (pictured on April 8, 2016, in Utah State Prison)
Federal probation officials will keep a close eye on the convicted kidnapper to ensure she does not try and contact her victim by phone or the internet, and her housing will not be located anywhere near Smart.
If Barzee does violate her conditions, she will be brought before a judge who can sentence her to more prison time.
Once the five year period ends, Smart, now 30, can ask a judge for a protective order to prevent Barzee from contacting her.
Barzee was jailed after pleading guilty to kidnap then-14-year-old Smart in 2002. The court heard she then stood by as her one-time husband Brian David Mitchell repeatedly raped the teen.
Mitchell is serving a life sentence in Arizona.
Brian David Mitchell, Barzee's husband who raped Smart daily while holding her in captivity, is pictured in his 2004 mugshot
Yet, despite the Utah parole board deeming Barzee unfit for release, she will be released Wednesday because state law dictates inmates must be released at the end of their sentence.
Smart said the decision was 'incomprehensible'.
She said in a statement last week she was 'surprised and disappointed' to learn that Barzee will be freed after failing to undergo mental health evaluations and failing to attend her own parole hearing in June.
Smart says she's exploring her 'options' and plans to speak publicly in the coming days.
The board said previously that Barzee would be released in January 2024 after it denied her an early parole following a hearing that she chose not to attend. The board said at the June hearing that Barzee refused to take a psychological exam.
At the June hearing, her attorney questioned the calculation of her release date, which led the Utah board to look into it. Lawyer Scott Williams said Tuesday he's appreciative the board reviewed it and agreed with his assessment.
Williams said he's not concerned about Barzee being a danger to the community, but declined to say why he believes that.
In June, Smart urged the parole board not to grant the woman's release by saying she still carried a book which contains revelations her husband said he received from God telling him to keep Smart.
Elizabeth was just 14 when she was taken. She is pictured at the time of her disappearance
The pair snatched Elizabeth from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah (her home is pictured in 2002)
She said the manuscript also contains other 'disturbing and dangerous ideas,' though it is not clear how she knows she had it.
'In this manuscript were the 'revelations' Mitchell 'received' from God to kidnap myself and six other young girls to be his wife.
'It also 'revealed' his other highly disturbing and dangerous ideas.'
'This is proof to me that she hasn't changed, and if the prior 15+ years hasn't changed her I don't see how the future years will,' Smart said in an Instagram post in June, adding: 'I do not think I'm a vindictive or vengeful person.
'If change were truly possible in her case then perhaps parole/release could be justified.
Her father Ed said: 'I would hate for her to have the opportunity to do that again to someone else.'
Smart, now married with two children, has written a book about the harrowing ordeal and helped make a Lifetime movie and documentary about the crime and her life. She is now a child safety activist who regularly gives speeches.
Barzee is pictured, left, when she was arrested in 2003 and right, in a 2010 photo
Mitchell, shown above in 2010, will spend the rest of his life imprisoned
She is expecting her third baby in November.
Smart was from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah by Mitchell who knew her because he had been hired by her family to do handiwork at their home.
For nine months, the religion-obsessed couple kept Smart tied up in the woods where Mitchell subjected her to daily rapes and death threats.
She was eventually rescued when a stranger saw the three of them in the street and recognized the pair from an episode of America's Most Wanted.
In 2010, seven years after Smart was rescued, Barzee pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
She was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment but was given credit for already spending seven of them in custody.
Mitchell was given back to back life sentences.
Smart is pregnant with her third child. She has turned her trauma into a tool and speaks at motivational events. She has also had her story turned into a Lifetime TV movie and she has written a book
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