In 2016, she claimed two Latina women kidnapped and abused her — but she later admitted she made it all up.
Sherri Papini leaves the federal courthouse in Sacramento, California, on Monday.
The California woman who faked her own kidnapping in 2016, prompting a massive search and flurry of media attention, was sentenced Monday to a year and a half in prison, according to theSherri Papini, 39, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about her fake kidnapping and committing mail fraud on April 18, after years during which the wife and mother stood by herof being abducted while jogging near her home in Redding, held captive, then abruptly released two weeks later.
Prosecutors initially sought eight months in prison, but US District Judge William Shubb said during the trial that an 18-month sentence was necessary to deter others, according toOn Nov. 2, 2016, Papini was reported missing after she disappeared while jogging, leaving her cellphone and earbuds dropped by the side of a road.
Evidence, like DNA, her cellphone, and car rental records, showed that Papini was voluntarily staying with a former boyfriend and that she had harmed herself. When investigators met with Papini in August 2020, she continued to lie even after multiple warnings from authorities. "Papini's kidnapping hoax was deliberate, well planned, and sophisticated," prosecutors wrote in a court filing, according toPapini's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News on Monday but
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