Sherri Papini, who faked her own kidnapping, should get 8 months in prison, prosecutors say
Sherri Papini, the California woman who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it, should be sentenced to 8 months in prison,
Sherri Papini, the California woman who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it, should be sentenced to 8 months in prison, prosecutors said Monday.
"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 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. They also recommended 3 years of supervised released after time served.
Papini pleaded guilty in April to two counts of a 35-count indictment, admitting to mail fraud and lying to a law enforcement officer.
The charges didn't stem from faking her abduction but rather the lies she continued to tell years after she returned.
Sherri Papini admits to faking 2016 kidnapping in plea dealApril 13, 202202:41Papini, a mother of two from Redding, was arrested nearly six years after she was reported missing in November 2016. She reappeared 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.
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