Sherri Papini, a Redding mother of two, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Monday for meticulously faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend.
SACRAMENTO —Sherri Papini, a Redding mother of two, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Monday for meticulously faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, prompting an intensive three-week, multi-state search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016.
"The nation is watching the outcome of Papini's sentencing hearing," Assistant U.S. Attorneys Veronica Alegria and Shelley Weger wrote."The public needs to know that there will be more than a slap on the wrist for committing financial fraud and making false statements to law enforcement, particularly when those false statements result in the expenditure of substantial resources and implicate innocent people.
But Senior U.S. District Judge William Shubb said he chose18 months to deter copycats and make up for the number of people Papini's lies impacted. Passersby found her with bindings on her body, a swollen nose, a blurred"brand" on her right shoulder, bruises and rashes across her body, ligature marks on her wrists and ankles, and burns on her left forearm. All the injuries were self-inflicted, and all designed to support her story that she had been abducted at gunpoint by two Hispanic women while she was out for a run.
She has offered no rationale for her actions, which stumped even independent mental health experts who said her actions don't conform with any typical diagnosis.
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