APne 06/06 0210 Moonie DENVER (AP) -- Britta Adolfsson said Friday she forgives her pare

APne 06/06 0210 Moonie


   DENVER  (AP)  -- Britta Adolfsson said Friday she forgives her
parents  for  hiring  deprogrammers  to  snatch  her   from   the
Unification Church, but will never again trust them.

   "They (her  parents)  apologized  to  me.   They promised they
would never do it again  and  they  asked  for  my  forgiveness,"
Adolfsson,  29,  told  a  news conference at a Denver Unification
Church. "I understand where they're coming  from.    They  really
love me and I love them ... but I feel I can't trust them."

   She said her parents, Tord and Edith Adolfsson, paid thousands
of dollars to hire a team of deprogrammers to kidnap her from the
Rev.  Sun  Myung  Moon's Unification Church on May 26.  The woman
said she became a church  member  about  seven  years  ago  after
spending a year as an exchange student at a California college.

   Britta  Adolfsson  told  reporters  she  was  not coerced into
becoming a Moonie.   She  said  she  joined  freely  because  she
embraced their "ideals and ideas" about God and life.

   Frightened  by  "a  lot of negative publicity" surrounding the
Unification Church and rumors that she would  marry  again  in  a
mass  ceremony,  her  parents,  brother  and  sister, who live in
Sweden, hired the deprogrammers, Adolfsson said.

   "I'm not a kid anymore.  I know what  I'm  doing,"  she  said.
"But they  (her parents) are simple people ...  I feel very sorry
for them.  They had a lot of  confusion  and  fear.    They  were
worried about me.

   "I am  shocked  this  happened.  I did not feel they (parents)
would do this to me.  We had a good relationship," she said.

   She said it was difficult to believe her parents were involved
with Dennis Whelan and his son-in-law,  Jimmy  Lee  Hilzendenger,
who allegedly plucked her off East 14th Avenue in Capitol Hill as
she walked to a morning appointment.

   When  she  was pulled into the van Adolfsson said she was sure
the five men would rape her.  But they drove around for about two
hours before arriving at an elegant home with  a  swimming  pool,
jacuzzi and   horses.      There  her  parents  and  about  seven
deprogrammers waited.

   "I was scared, very upset and angry.  I was violated.    There
was no respect shown for me as a human being," she said.

   Tuesday  morning,  Adolfsson escaped through a bathroom window
while her captors slept in a Kansas house.

   A  few  days   later,   Whelan   and   Hilzendenger,   private
investigators  from Nebraska, were arrested, and her parents were
detained by police.  The Adolfssons, who returned  to  Sweden  on
Friday, will not be charged.

   Whelan and Hilzendenger are free on bond.

   
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