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This woman accused two Latinas in California of kidnapping and torturing her. She will now go to prison for a lie that caused "damage"

2022-09-19T20:14:09.708Z


"An entire community believed the hoax and lived in fear that there would be Hispanics roaming the streets to kidnap and sell women," prosecutors said.


By Antonio Planas and Elisha Fieldstadt -

NBC News

Sherri Papini, the Californian woman who recently admitted to having faked her own kidnapping in 2016, lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison and three years of probation.

The Prosecutor's Office requested a sentence of eight months in prison and three years of probation, in its sentencing memorandum presented on September 12 before the Court of the Eastern District of California.

The judge, William Shubb, also ordered him to pay $310,000 in restitution for losses suffered by the California Victim Compensation Board;

the Social Security Administration;

the Shasta County Sheriff's Office;

and the FBI.

Papini leaves a court in Sacramento on April 13Rich Pedroncelli / AP

Papini's attorney, William Portanova, called his client's prison sentence "fair."

Before learning of the penalty, he had explained that the woman "is now a different person."

Sherri left court without commenting to reporters.

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Papini pleaded guilty in April to two counts in an indictment that contained 35 counts against him.

He admitted to mail fraud and lying to authorities, in this case not by faking the kidnapping but by his statements about it in subsequent years.

The woman, now 39, a mother of two and living in Redding, was reported missing in November 2016.

He reappeared three weeks later, on Thanksgiving Day, 145 miles from where he had vanished, with injuries and a mark on his shoulder that he blamed on his kidnappers.

Five years later she was arrested for faking her kidnapping, inflicting those injuries on herself.

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Papini told police that two Hispanic women had kidnapped her.

But investigators found male DNA on her clothing, which led them to her ex-boyfriend, whom she had been staying with the entire time she pretended to be missing.

Papini had fled with the man to southern California, coming as far as 600 miles from home;

the man ended up leaving her on Interstate 5, about 150 miles from her home, after she told him he wanted to leave her.

The ex-boyfriend told investigators that Papini had asked him to hit her;

he didn't, she said, but agreed to help her by holding a hockey stick for her to pounce on.

He also agreed to leave marks on her body when she asked him to. 

"State and federal investigators devoted resources to Papini's case for nearly four years before uncovering the truth: that she was not kidnapped or tortured," prosecutors said at trial.

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Their actions, they added, caused " a

lot of societal harm

, such as causing the public to live in fear and possibly causing

law enforcement to doubt the veracity of future victims

' claims."

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"An entire community believed the hoax and lived in fear that Hispanic women would roam the streets to kidnap and sell women," prosecutors said.

“She kept up her deception and

received

Social Security and California Victims benefits for years, proving she had no remorse for her actions even after the FBI presented her with evidence of her fraud,” prosecutors concluded.

Source: telemundo

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