"Runaway Bride"

In the news story “Runaway Bride” incident, the runaway bride (Jennifer Wilbanks) could be charged with a crime in Washington State. The crime Ms.Wilbank’s could be charged for under the RCW 9A.76.175, is making false or misleading statement to a public servant. In RCW 9A.76.175 states “A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading material statement to a public servant is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.” Ms.Wilbanks violated this state code when she called her fiancé and reported that she had been kidnapped. Ms.Wilbanks knew that she had given false information to her fiancé; she also later admits to the police how she arranged her own disappearance.
Ms.Wilbanks can not use the insanity defense, because she is was not suffering from any mental disease or defect at the time of the crime. One might argue that anxiety could be considered a mental disease, but of course that would have to be proven. Ms.Wilbanks was able to tell right from wrong. Ms.Wilbanks only states in her defense that “she was overcome by anxiety.” RCW 9A.12.010 establishes in order to meet the insanity defense it must be shown that the accused was unable to tell right from wrong, unable to perceive the nature and quality of the act, and at the time of the commission of the offense result of mental disease or defect. Ms.Wilbanks has not proven any of the above defenses.
After evaluating Ms.Wilbanks circumstances, I do believe she should be charged criminally, because even though she had no bad motive she caused the police a lot of time and money. The police could have been investigating real cases, instead of a fabricated case. I think Ms.Wilbanks wasted a lot of workers and friends time with her fabricated kidnapping report. What happens the next time Ms.Wilbanks decides to report another false kidnapping on herself, are the police suppose to believe it?