BANFIELD: I have an update about Elizabeth Smart in just a moment. But first I want to do something that`s important to our network and to CNN as well. The City of Lagos is known as Nigeria`s Silicon Valley with both Facebook and Google opening offices there over the last year. But with technology really so dominated but man, one successful computer programmer is determined to help her country`s most disadvantaged girls fill the gender gap. So I want you to meet this week`s CNN hero.</s>BANFIELD: To see how one 17-year-old girl is using technology to solve a problem in her community, go to cnnheroes.com. Elizabeth Smart is speaking out tonight against the upcoming parole of the one of the people who kidnapped her, Wanda Barzee. The woman who assisted her husband Brian David Mitchell in that endless crime back in 2002.</s>ELIZABETH SMART, KIDNAP VICTIM: It was a big shock. I mean, only months ago I was on my way to a parole hearing when I was told she would never be let out until 2024. I would urge the powers that be and anyone who works under them to really, strongly reconsider this situation, to look at all the facts, look at her mental status and see if they really and honestly truly feel like she is no longer a threat and that she ready to be released.</s>BANFIELD: The Utah Board of Pardons announced on Tuesday that Wanda Barzee will be released from prison next week. She had pleaded guilty in `09 and she`s been behind bars for 15 years. Elizabeth Smart was 14 when Brian David Mitchell, her husband, kidnapped her at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City bedroom. Barzee and Mitchell together held that girl hostage for over nine months hiding her in the woods near her home. And then moving frequently around the country to avoid capture. Cannot imagine what it`s like to be her. See back here Monday night at 6:00 Eastern. Thank so much everyone you for watching. "FORENSIC FILES" begins right now. END
Elizabeth Smart Urges Authorities To Reconsider Planned Release Of Kidnapper Wanda Barzee