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Elizabeth Smart: Privacy Versus Publicity
when child victims become celebrities
by John Edward Gill
While Ed Smart and other members of Elizabeth Smart's family have appeared on various television talk shows, some print journalists have questioned whether Elizabeth is having enough privacy.
"Now they (the family) should tell everyone to go away and let this young girl heal in peace," wrote Jim Stingl, in the March 16, 2003, edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"I'm sure Elizabeth's parents love her very much," Stingl continued, "and they can show it by doing their best to protect what's left of her privacy and helping to ease her back into school, which will be traumatic enough."
Yet, that may be hard to do with more than 100 media and book offers for Elizabeth's story.
Source: HighBeam Research, Elizabeth Smart: Privacy Versus Publicity -- Media And Money.