Posted on 04/12/2022 6:48:35 PM PDT by conservative98
A California mother of two who allegedly faked her own kidnapping for 22 days in 2016 will admit that it was all a hoax under a plea deal she struck with prosecutors on Tuesday.
Sherri Papini, 39, will plead guilty to counts of lying to FBI agents and mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California's Office confirmed.
"I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so very sorry for the pain I’ve caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me," Papini said in a statement released by the office of her attorney, William Portanova. "I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done."
Details of the plea deal come more than a month after she was arrested on March 3 and accused of defrauding California Victim’s Compensation Board out of $30,000.
Her family posted her $120,000 bond five days later and she was released under the conditions that she seeks psychiatric treatment and surrenders her passport.
Papini originally disappeared from her home in Redding, California, on 11-2-16. The disappearance riveted the nation until she showed up 22 days later on Thanksgiving Day in Woodland, about 140-miles south of Redding, with a brand on her right shoulder, bindings on her body, a swollen nose, and other injuries.
At the time, Papini told police that two Hispanic women abducted her and held her against her will, providing descriptions of the suspects to a sketch artist so that law enforcement agencies could be on the lookout for them.
In reality, prosecutors say that Papini had been staying with an ex-boyfriend and harmed herself to make the hoax sounds credible.
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You can find her in the upper left corner of the Hot/Crazy matrix.
Oops, upper right corner…
You fake a crime you should get the punishment the alleged perp would have gotten.
If you have falsely accused anyone specific you should get double the punishment.
I'd say 7-8 horizontal, 9 vertical. Definitely in the Danger Zone.
Should would have NEVER been convicted anyway, at least not here.
She has the v-card.
Won’t get much of anything thrown at her.
That french actor didn't.
Does not mean it is right.
Its definitely not right.
I dont know why anyone should take the v-card for anything.
But that is just my opinion. Obviously society has a different opinion because people keep getting away with it.
Well i dont either but they do.
Women get preferential treatment, attractive people get preferential treatment, younger people get preferential treatment, sometimes wealthier people can get preferential treatment...
Maybe she just wanted to start a conversation...
I recall hearing about that story. I’m not near Redding, but in the same state of California. Very early on, the Police thought they were dealing with a fake situation.
A lot of people on talk shows called them heartless.
Maybe this is how it will be for a certain
Jussie Smollette. Maybe one fine day, he will admit that he faked the entire performance. Something we already knew very early on.
The FBI lies all the time and is never made to demonstrate contrition.
At the most they talk about wasting police resources.
Not really the point.
Haven’t you heard? They don’t believe in punishment in Cali anymore. Perps get all the rights nowadays. Victims get no justice.
i agree.
but they are somewhat hypocritical about it
because sometimes, depending who it is, they are very concerned about faking crimes, or even insinuating they are fake...
if its enemies or the wrong type or class of people, its a problem
otherwise it isn’t
and its basically the only types and classes of person you are allowed to legally discriminate against today
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