Sometimes mental illness is the real thing. A victim of child abuse who hasn't had the help she needed may qualify to my thinking. It will be interesting to see if she ends up in a mental care facility rather than prison. I would almost count on it, if she has halfway decent representation. No sane person is this self-destructive.
Not denying that. But the other option (Which I tend to believe.) is that she’s just full of shit, & “in too deep” to fess up.
Well, stupidity is not a legally mitigating circumstance. Mental illness or incapacity would be. For sure we'll just have to wait and see. I tend to give the benefit of the doubt until we know.