SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California woman who pleaded guilty to orchestrating an elaborate hoax about being kidnapped and even seared with a branding iron by her abductors is scheduled to be sentenced Monday.
Sherri Papini, 40, is facing a sentence of eight months when she appears in U.S. District Court in Sacramento.
Defense attorneys are asking Shubb for mercy, requesting she be allowed to do most of her time under house arrest. On Thanksgiving Day 2016, Papini, who is white, resurfaced in Redding, telling investigators, including FBI agents, that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Hispanic women, who tortured her and branded her, authorities said.
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