(KUTV) Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart made a plea for information and tips in the case of missing Provo woman Elizabeth Salgado. 
 
 Twenty-six-year-old Salgado disappeared a year ago Saturday, in broad daylight, on the streets of Provo. The young woman was new to Utah, a recently returned LDS missionary from Mexico. 
 
 Tips coming into Provo police, a year after the fact, are drying up and the Smart's are hoping to get people thinking about where they were and what they saw one year ago. 
 
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 "I have faith in humanity and this community and that we can bring her home, you brought me home. Why can't it happen again? Why can't another miracle happen?" 
 
 Elizabeth Smart, now 28, was kidnapped at the age of 14 and held captive for nine months, knows the "impossible" can happen. 
 
 "Please, if you know anything, if you've seen anything, don't give up; there is a very good chance that she is still alive." 
 
 Elizabeth Smart was joined Monday, by her father Ed Smart who said, "We do not know if she has been trafficked or what the scenario is, but the family still holds out great hope she is out there." 
 
 Ed Smart is using the lessons he learned in the search for his own daughter Elizabeth to help the Salgado family. The idea is to keep her name in the news and on people's minds. 
 
 "It is hard to conceive that somebody did not see something out there." 
 
 Ed Smart held almost daily news conferences, sometimes more than one a day, while Elizabeth was missing. The heightened awareness eventually helped community members bring her home. 
 
 She was spotted in Sandy walking with Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. She was dressed in disguise, but her picture had been on the news so often, she was still easily recognizable. 
 
 Elizabeth Salgado did not disappear in the dark of night like Elizabeth, she disappeared in broad daylight, walking home from Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah. The young woman had an 18-block walk to her apartment where she never arrived. 
 
 "I am begging the community to please help," said Salgado's uncle, Rosemberg Salgado, He remembers the relief that came when Elizabeth Smart was found. He believes his niece is still alive, and spoke directly to a possible captor. 
 
 "If you have any compassion in your heart, any goodness, any conscience please listen to my plea and let my niece go." 
 
 Salgado's mother is heartbroken and spoke in Spanish about her loss and desperate desire to have her daughter back. Elizabeth Smart encouraged her to keep faith and encouraged the missing young woman to do the same. 
 
 "I would want her to not lose faith in her family, because your family still loves her it doesn't matter what has happened to her they still love her unconditionally and they want her home more than anything." 
 
 Elizabeth Salgado is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. 
 
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 Provo Police still have a full-time detective assigned to the case, but say the stream of tips has drastically slowed from this time last year. There is a $50,000 reward offered for Salgado's safe return. 
 
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 REXBURG — Ed Smart, the father of a Utah teenager who was kidnapped and found nine months later, visited east Idaho Thursday to attend a screening of a documentary about child sex trafficking. 
 
 Smart’s daughter, Elizabeth, was forced from her Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002. Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee are currently in prison for kidnapping the then 14-year-old child. 
 
 “When Elizabeth was abducted do we think of her being enslaved?” Ed Smart asked during a conversation with EastIdahoNews.com. “She absolutely was for nine months. She was assaulted once twice a day for almost every day of the nine months she was gone.” 
 
 Smart is now on a mission to rescue children from sex trafficking. He’s working with Operation Underground Railroad – a nonprofit group traveling around the world to save kids forced into the sex trade. 
 
 “It is more common,” Smart said. “Any time you have a resort area more than likely trafficking is going on there. Any time there’s a big sporting event in the United States you can believe trafficking is going on.” 
 
 Operation Underground Railroad has produced a new documentary called “The Abolitionists.” It shows investigators rescuing endangered children and going after the adult perpetrators around the world. 
 
 “Usually when an operation starts we start working with the U.S. Embassy and we determine who are the vetted law enforcement agencies that we can trust,” Smart said. “In a number of countries where they have laws that have never been implemented this will be the first time the prosecutions of those pimps has actually happened.” 
 
 Authorities estimate two million children worldwide are being trafficked for sex. 
 
 Smart said it’s happening here and the film gives parents a chance to speak with their own kids about the problem. 
 
 For Smart this project is personal as he honors his own daughter who survived the unthinkable. 
 
 “Elizabeth is great,” Smart said. “She just had a baby girl named Chloe about three months ago. We want all of those people that have been victimized out there to be survivors. We want them to find their dreams and find that new hope in life that helps them become the best and the most they can be.” 
 
 “The Abolitionists” will be shown at Fat Cats movie theatre in Rexburg on Thursday, May 28 at 5:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 7:45 p.m., and 8.15 p.m.. Admission is free and a question and answer session will follow each screening. 
 
 To watch the entire uncut interview with Smart, click here.
– Elizabeth Smart has been guarding her private life pretty well from the media, it seems—considering that the Utah activist had a baby girl named Chloe three months ago, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. "It is totally private," says her father, Ed Smart. "This is something she is keeping to herself and not trying to have out there." Ed first let the news slip about his daughter, who was kidnapped from her home in 2002 and held for nine months, while promoting a new film about child sex-trafficking called The Abolitionists. "Elizabeth is great," he told East Idaho News last week. "She just had a baby girl named Chloe about three months ago." Now 27, Elizabeth also makes appearances to advocate for girls and women trapped in the horrors of sex trafficking. She recently joined her father in speaking out for Utah woman Elizabeth Laguna-Salgado, 26, who vanished while walking in downtown Provo in April, the Tribune reports. As for the baby news, it's not a total surprise: Elizabeth Smart married her Scottish boyfriend Matthew Gilmour three years ago, and Ed Smart recently posted a photo of himself with a baby girl on social media, E! News reports. (Click to see what two of the former Cleveland captives are up to.)