A social media influencer and mom from the North Bay who went viral for a 2020 Instagram video falsely claiming a couple tried to kidnap her children has been sentenced to jail, prosecutors said.
According to the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office, 30-year-old Kathleen"Katie" Sorensen was sentenced Thursday to serve 90 days in jail, 60 of which could be served on a work-release program. Sorensen"Ms. Sorensen has been held accountable for her crime and we believe the Judge handed down a fair sentence," District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said in a statement.
Sorensen then went on a local news program repeating her claims and identified a Petaluma couple as being the perpetrators, which proved to be false. Before the accusation, Sorenson had enjoyed a modest following on her @motherhoodessentials Instagram account while also posting conspiracy theories espoused by QAnon followers of Democrats and Hollywood elites running child sex-trafficking rings. Her videos on the alleged kidnapping attempt were viewed more than four million times and gained her tens of thousands of new followers. They have since been deleted.
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