APks 06/03 2044 Moonie Kidnap DENVER (AP) -- A Denver judge on Wednesday reduced bond

APks 06/03 2044 Moonie Kidnap


   DENVER  (AP)  --  A  Denver judge on Wednesday reduced bond to
$5,000 for  two  Omaha,  Neb.,  men  charged  with  kidnapping  a
Unification  Church  follower  who  later  fled a house where she
allegedly was being "deprogrammed" in Lyons, Kan.

   Dennis Whelan, 52, and James Hilzenderger, 27, who are charged
with second-degree kidnapping, conspiracy and false imprisonment,
had been held on $250,000 bond.  But Denver County  Judge  Robert
Crew Jr. dropped it to $5,000 during a two-hour hearing.

   Crew said that when the men post bond -- as they were expected
to  do  Wednesday  night  --  they  may  not  participate  in any
deprogramming activities and must remain within a 200-mile radius
of Omaha.

   Whelan, reportedly an expert on deprogramming cult  followers,
and  Hilzenderger were arrested last week following the abduction
on May 26 of Britta  Adolfsson,  29,  of  Sweden  from  a  Denver
street.   The  woman  was  forced  into a van by two men in broad
daylight, witnesses told police.

   Authorities have said Adolfsson's parents,  Swedish  physicist
Tord  Adolfsson and his wife Edith, hired deprogrammers to abduct
their daughter because they were  concerned  about  her  upcoming
wedding this  summer  to  a  man in South Korea.  No charges have
been filed against the Adolfssons in the case.

   Britta Adolfsson reportedly has belonged for  eight  years  to
the  Unification  Church,  whose  members  are known as "Moonies"
because of their Korean founder, the Rev.  Sun Myung Moon, police
have said.

   For a week, Adolfsson had been  the  object  of  a  search  by
Denver  police with the help of the FBI. But Tuesday morning, she
ran from a house in Lyons and flagged down Sgt.  Buck  Causey  of
the  Kansas  Highway  Patrol.  "She said she had been kidnapped,"
Causey said.

   Adolfsson told authorities several men had held her captive at
the house, but they apparently fled before  police  could  search
the dwelling.

   The woman appeared to have "no physical injuries," as a result
of  her  time  in  captivity,  said Denver District Attorney Norm
Early, "but something like this has to  affect  you  emotionally.
The  terror  of being snatched off the street has to be extremely
great."

   Two Denver detectives on Wednesday brought Adolfsson  back  to
Denver, where she was staying at a hotel, officials said.

   
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