Posted on 05/31/2005 5:14:52 PM PDT by El Conservador
ATLANTA - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has agreed to pay $13,250 to the city of Duluth, Ga., to help pay for the costs the city incurred searching for her, the mayor said Tuesday.
The city attorney notified Mayor Shirley Lasseter that a written agreement for compensation had been reached. The city was expected to receive a check from Wilbanks on Tuesday, Lasseter said.
In accepting the agreement, the city will have to write off about $30,000 in other costs searching for the bride-to-be, who disappeared April 26, four days before her planned wedding.
"We're very appreciative they were willing to give us the $13,000. We would have certainly welcomed the entire amount that covered all of our employees but we are ready to get this behind us," Lasseter said.
Wilbanks was indicted last Wednesday on charges she told police a phony story about being kidnapped and sexually assaulted. She was charged with making a false statement and making a false police report.
She could get up to six years behind bars and $11,000 in fines if convicted. She could also be ordered to reimburse authorities, though several state and county agencies have said they will not ask Wilbanks to reimburse them for search costs.
Wilbanks, a nurse, disappeared from her Duluth home on April 26 and took a bus to Las Vegas and then Albuquerque, N.M., where she called authorities with a story about having been abducted. She later recanted and said she fled because of unspecified personal issues.
She returned to Georgia on April 30 and has since entered into psychiatric treatment. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter previously said he will wait until she completes treatment before asking her to turn herself in.
A call to Wilbanks' attorney, Lydia Sartain, was not immediately returned on Tuesday.
I want to know if the Groom is dumb enough to marry her.
I would walk away from that psycho beotch and not look back.
So why did they settle for that drop in the bucket? hell she spent more on her non wedding. She should have been held accountable for every single penny that was wasted on her sorry A..
Must be nice to have money and not have to face the justice we average joes see.
As I understand it, her fiance has been going to see her at the psycho ward. Maybe he's trying to help her chew through the leather straps.
And where, pray tell, did the loon come up with 13K+ in cash?
She's only paying $13,000 out of the total of $42,000?
That's only about a 4th of the total.
WTF?
She should pay at least 1/2 minimum and then make up the rest of it doing public service jobs.
the lack of judgement displayed be this twit should disqualify her from working in this profession.
At least she's not hollywood or MTV trash.
They would have made her a victimized goddess by now.
Come to think of it, they may yet.
She'll also declare bankruptcy immediately to avoid the debt before the marriage IMO.
Sound like a cheap pay out to me ... . And the groom still wants to marry HER?

A nurse?
This psycho sticks needles in people?
Might as well have universal health care.
I would walk away from that psycho beotch and not look back.
Care to guess which "head" is doing the thinking on his end?
Bug eye's and all.
Sorry, my bad. She looks creepy.
I'll have to check the local sport's books to see what the "futures" are.
Future events like: at some point in the future she goes off the deep end and 1) kills her husband, 2) kills her children, 3) kills some co-workers.
Prime material, here.
LVM
and has since entered into psychiatric treatment
Hell, they will probably give her disability for the rest of her life at our expense, and she still may very well end up right back working with patients.
How would you like to go into your operation knowing that she might be your nurse?
The woman clearly has issues that need, at the very least, a doctor's care. Do you think her fiancee is the only person to have gotten attached to such a situation? "My sensors detect" there are many here who have done the same. So leave them alone, already!
(However, the more they talk to the media, the less they can be defended -- and/or perhaps, the more apparent it is why her condition exists)
DOE
Her family is not impoverished so I suspect it was Mummsy and Daddsy bailing her out or perhaps it was the moronic groom.
"Besides, it's not like it's my money."
"I would walk away from that psycho beotch and not look back."
How do you know if he isn't a psycho? Takes one to wanna be with one. Co-dependancy etc.
DaughterofEve
Like that moniker!
I'm a Narnia fan too!
Proverbs 3:5-6 is good too!!!!
I guess you'll have to go "to the future" and let us know what happens LOL
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