To the editor:

Today, the Jennifer Wilbanks’ story occupies the top spot in U.S. media. For Pete’s sake, leave these people alone so they can live their lives in privacy and resolve their problems at home without the interference of the snoopy media.

The mayor of Duluth, Ga., and the district attorney of Gwinett County (to say nothing of the FBI and GBI) are considering charging her with making a false report (12 months in prison) or even a false statement (a felony resulting in five years in prison). She endured eight bridal showers and the whole event was to cost $60,000.

Someone needs to ask “What’s the fiance got to do with this?” (the media portrays him as a victim of biblical proportions) and also “What’s wrong with the poorly funded financial administration of the hard-working Duluth social services and women’s safe houses that a desperate woman in our society has nowhere to run but the Greyhound bus station with a ticket to nowhere?”

The political administration of Duluth, Gwinett County and the state of Georgia should be investigated, but certainly not Jennifer Wilbanks. She needs to be welcomed home, loved and not prosecuted. Surely the gas-guzzling, SUV-driving citizens of Duluth can absorb the $40,000 to $60,000 cost of the investigation; they invented the story anyway. They owe it to her since they let her down.

Paul Mirecki,

Lawrence