LDS convert speaks out about alleged kidnapping

In a statement to the Deseret News — through her attorney — Danielle

Alonso said she "voluntarily returned to Texas to be with her family."

"The decision to return to her Texas home and family and to remain

there is personal and will remain private. It is her own decision and

not the result of any undue influence or coercion," San Antonio

attorney Carl Kolb said.

Salt Lake County sheriff's detectives plan to meet with prosecutors

to decide if any criminal charges should be leveled against the parents

suspected of abducting the 19-year-old woman. After some delays,

detectives managed to question Danielle Alonso in Texas late May 13.

She was accompanied by her attorney — something police said is "not

very common" for someone who is believed to be a kidnap victim.

"To say that we've been able to have complete and unadulterated

access to her in Texas would not be accurate," Salt Lake County

Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson said May 14. "But we were able to complete

an interview."

A Salt Lake lawyer hired by her parents, Daniel and Gloria Alonso,

denied it was they who hired the attorney in Texas. Kolb said she chose

to speak with him "because of the possibility that something more than

mere investigation of the facts was afoot."

"She wanted to be candid but avoid exploitation," Kolb said in the written statement.

Detectives questioned the parents for more than six hours in Salt Lake City on May 13 before letting them return to Texas.