Federal prosecutors are seeking eight months in prison for Sherri Papini, who admitted to faking her own kidnapping, garnering national attention.
As part of an April plea deal, Papini pleaded guilty to faking her own November 2016 kidnapping and lying to law enforcement in the years after. Prosecutors recommended Papini be sentenced to eight months in prison followed by three years of “supervised release” in a sentencing memorandum filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
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“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,” wrote prosecutors in the filing.
The prosecutors said Papini’s criminal conduct regarding the hoax was “serious and had far reaching effects,” which serves as justification for their eight-month recommendation.
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In November 2016, Papini disappeared for three weeks, reemerging on Thanksgiving. She said she had been abducted and held at gunpoint in a closet before being released when, in reality, she had been staying with her ex-boyfriend and given herself injuries, she admitted in more recent court documents.
Papini’s sentencing is scheduled for Monday.
