Alleged kidnapped bride past forgiveness

A woman whose parents are charged with kidnapping her on the eve of her wedding says she isn't about to forgive them.

Julianna Myers, 21, suggested she doesn't want her mother to see her baby, who is due in May.

"We have to protect our new baby. I don't trust my mom," she told the Deseret Morning News in a story published Friday.

Myers said she's tired of hearing her parents describe her in TV interviews as a disobedient child who wants to see them in prison.

"I'm past forgiveness," she said.

Myers' parents, Lemuel Redd, 60, and Julia Redd, 57, are charged with kidnapping her Aug. 4 to stop her from getting married the next day. A trial has been set for July 9 in Utah County.

Myers went ahead with the wedding a few days later than planned, marrying Perry Myers on Aug. 8 in the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City.

"It's so frustrating. They look like this innocent farm family," Perry Myers said. "People simply don't want to believe."

Perry Myers said Julia Redd once looked him in the eye and declared: "In this family, I am in charge, and you will do exactly what I say."

An attorney for the parents held out the possibility of a plea agreement to close the case before trial.

"I think it should have been mediated out," said Craig McLachlan. "They aren't criminals. This should be settled in the family room, not the courtroom."