Parents charged with abducting bride

By DEBBIE HUMMEL
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

SALT LAKE CITY -- The parents of a bride-to-be told their daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip, but then drove to Colorado and kept her there until she missed the nuptials, officials said.

Lemuel and Julia Redd have been charged with second-degree felony kidnapping. Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said Tuesday he met with the couple's daughter, Julianna, and her now-husband Perry Myers before charging the parents.

"I've never had a case quite like this," Bryson said. "It is strange that parents would go to that extent to keep an adult daughter from marrying the man that she had chosen to marry."

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The Redds didn't want their daughter to get married, but the bride has been reluctant to say what happened on the drive. Myers said he and his wife were not discussing details of the car ride but said her parents' objections were not about him.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Kidnapped_Bride.html

they tie her up? threaten her? Lock her in a room?

Redstone

Not all parents are good parents.

Maybe not, but maybe so.

Redstone

If she got into the car willingly, but was detoured far from her original location, via deceit, she was kidnapped or at least falsely imprisoned, depending on the state's specific rules. It doesn't matter if she was tied up, or locked up (she was probably locked in the car -- or, at least, the fact that the car was moving made her think twice about exiting it).

You just about sum it up.

Of course, that doesn't get into the fact that this was a 21 year old woman.

before she married my father.

are truling turning weird. I guess they think they've been enabled by the nut in chief.