Sherri Papini, the California woman who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying about it to the FBI, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
“A lesser sentence, such as the one month of imprisonment recommended by probation or home detention in lieu of incarceration, is not sufficient to achieve the purposes of sentencing,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed Sept. 12 in U.S. District Court for Eastern California. They also recommended three years of supervised release after she serves her time in prison.
The charges didn’t stem from faking her abduction but rather from the lies she continued to tell years afterward.more than five years after she was reported missing in November 2016. She reappeared three weeks later, on Thanksgiving, about 145 miles south of where she vanished with injuries that authorities now believe were self-inflicted and a brand on her shoulder that she blamed on her abductors..
The former boyfriend told investigators that Papini had asked him to hit her — he wouldn’t, but he agreed to hold a hockey stick for her to run into and to pelt her with hockey pucks. He also branded her when she asked him to. The government said an eight-month sentence would discourage Papini from ever trying such a scheme again and dissuade others from committing fraud.
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