PROVO, Utah - A woman whose parents are charged with
kidnapping her to stop her wedding tearfully testified Wednesday that they
grabbed her by the hair and told her she was breaking the commandment to honor them.
 Julianna Redd Myers, 21, looks at her parents as her husband,
Perry, looks on during a preliminary hearing against Julia and Lemuel Redd
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, in Provo, Utah. Her parents are charged with
kidnapping her the day before her wedding in August. [AP]
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Lemuel Redd, 59, and his wife Julia, 57, of Monticello,
were ordered to stand trial after the testimony from their daughter, Julianna
Redd Myers, 21.
Defense attorneys Dean and Rhome Zabriskie said they were talking to
prosecutors about a plea bargain for their clients.
"Naturally, they're under a lot of stress, and they want there to be healing
in the family," Rhome Zabriskie said, declining to comment on the testimony.
Myers said her parents picked her up Aug. 4, the day before she was to be
married at the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, for what she thought was to be a
quick shopping trip to get special religious clothing.
Instead, they drove south and east toward Colorado, Myers said.
"They told me Perry was evil and wicked and abusive," Myers said, referring
to her fiance, now her husband.
They stopped at a gas station in Salina, 175 miles west of the Colorado line,
where Myers used the bathroom.
When she emerged, her parents grabbed her by the wrists and hair, claiming
she wasn't honoring her father and mother, Myers testified.
"'Are you prepared to go to the temple without us?'" Myers, her voice
quavering, said her parents asked at one point. "I said, 'I will. I don't want
to but I will.'"
The three spent the night in Grand Junction, Colo., and returned to Provo the
next day.
Julianna and Perry Myers were married Aug. 8 at The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints temple. She is due to deliver their first child in late May.
Fourth District Judge James Taylor did not immediately
set a trial date on the second-degree kidnapping charge, which carries a maximum
penalty of 15 years in prison.