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Caught this on the radio this morning. Parents could go to jail for 15 years because they kept their daughter from going to her wedding. I'm convinced they deserve it.
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The parents of a bride-to-be in the US 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 yesterday 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."
The Redds told their 21-year-old daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip on August 4 and then drove 390 km from Provo to Grand Junction, Colorado, according to Provo police Captain Rick Healey.
Myers, 23, called police when his bride did not attend a pre-wedding dinner with his parents that night.
The Redds spent the night in Colorado and drove back to Provo, about 65 km south of Salt Lake City, the next day, Healey said. They arrived after the young couple was supposed to have been married in a ceremony that day at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Salt Lake City.
The couple, both students at Brigham Young University, were married in the temple on August 8, Myers said. They are expecting their first child in May.
Lemuel, 59, and Julia Redd, 56, are scheduled to make a court appearance on October 26. If the parents are convicted, they could face one to 15 years in prison.
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