Police release surveillance video of Papini running through a parking lot on the morning she was found.have asked that Sherri Papini, the young mom who admitted she staged a violent abduction to spend time with a former fling, be sentenced to eight months behind bars for the costly scheme – a much different request than the one month that defense attorneys suggested, court papers show.on the morning of September 19 by U.S. District Court Judge William B. Shubb in California.
The document adds:"During this time, Papini caused innocent individuals to become targets of a criminal investigation. She left the public in fear of her alleged Hispanic capturers who purportedly remained at large.", even in August 2020 when agents confronted her with the evidence of what really happened. She also allegedly lied to the California Victim Compensation Board and the Social Security Administration to receive financial benefits.
Sherri Papini of Redding walks to the federal courthouse accompanied by her attorney, William Portanova, right, in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, April 13, 2022. "Her unsettled masochism was in full public display when she returned from her fake kidnapping bearing the scars and wounds of her self-inflicted penance," he wrote. He later added:"There seems to be little or no chance for Sherri to go backwards now. The lies are out, the guilt admitted, the shame universally seen.
The young mom from Redding, California, was first reported missing on Nov, 2, 2016, after she left home for a jog. Family members grew concerned after she never picked up her children from day care, and her husband discovered her cellphone and headphones along the road. She re-emerged on Thanksgiving Day 2016, still wearing bindings and with injuries, including a battered nose, ligature marks, burns, rashes and a branding on her right shoulder.
Sherri Papini leaving her Redding, California, home a few months later after she claimed she was kidnapped.