Prosecutors looking for eight months in jail for Sherri Papini above kidnapping hoax

Jack Birle

September 14, 03:22 PM September 14, 03:22 PM

Federal prosecutors are searching for 8 months in prison for Sherri Papini, who admitted to faking her very own kidnapping, garnering nationwide awareness.

As element of an April plea offer, Papini pleaded guilty to faking her possess November 2016 kidnapping and lying to law enforcement in the a long time just after. Prosecutors advised Papini be sentenced to eight months in jail adopted by three a long time of "supervised launch" in a sentencing memorandum submitted in the U.S. District Court docket for the Eastern District of California.

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"A lesser sentence, this kind of as the just one thirty day period of imprisonment suggested by probation or dwelling detention in lieu of incarceration, is not ample to reach the applications of sentencing," wrote prosecutors in the filing.

The prosecutors said Papini's legal carry out concerning the hoax was "really serious and experienced considerably achieving outcomes," which serves as justification for their eight-thirty day period suggestion.

In November 2016, Papini disappeared for three weeks, reemerging on Thanksgiving. She explained she had been abducted and held at gunpoint in a closet just before becoming released when, in fact, she experienced been remaining with her ex-boyfriend and presented herself accidents, she admitted in extra recent court docket paperwork.

Papini's sentencing is scheduled for Monday.