California democrat woman California mom Sherri Papini enduring what 'feels like a life sentence,' lawyer says ahead of sentencing

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California mom Sherri Papini to be sentenced after pleading guilty to
faking abduction: 'The lies are out'

California prosecutors 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.

Papini is due to be sentenced on the morning of September 19 by U.S.
District Court Judge William B. Shubb in California. Prosecutors and
defense attorneys submitted their separate sentencing memorandums ahead of
Papini’s upcoming court date, as lawyers for the young mom griped that her
punishment already "feels like a life sentence," the filings show.

"There seems to be little or no chance for Sherri to go backwards now."

— William J. Portanova, defense attorney for Sherri Papini
Prosecutors urged Shubb to sentence Papini to eight months in jail, which
they described as a "low-end Guidelines sentence" that "fully and fairly
accounts for the totality of Papini’s conduct and the relevant sentencing
factors," the document states.


"Papini planned and executed a sophisticated kidnapping hoax, and then
continued to perpetuate her false statements for years after her return
without regard for the harm she caused others," prosecutors’ filing
states. "As a result, state and federal investigators devoted limited
resources to Papini’s case for nearly four years before they independently
learned the truth: that she was not kidnapped or tortured."

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."

Prosecutors further slammed Papini for repeating her bogus story to law
enforcement, 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.

Papini pleaded guilty in April 2022 to two count – out of 35 total counts
– for engaging in mail fraud and making false statements to a federal
office, prosecutors said.

In his own sentencing memorandum, Papini defense attorney William
Portanova asked that the jurist order Papini to serve one month in jail
and the remaining seven under house arrest, in line with the United States
Probation Office’s recommendation.

"Ms. Papini’s painful early years twisted and froze her in myriad ways,"
he wrote. "Unschooled and unskilled in honest communication, Ms. Papini
lost her way early on."

CALIFORNIA MOTHER WHO ALLEGEDLY FAKED HER OWN KIDNAPPING STRIKES PLEA
DEAL, WILL ADMIT IT WAS A HOAX

Portanova further described Papini as "outwardly sweet and loving, yet
capable of intense deceit, whether for purposes of situational control or
emotional self-protection."

"Ms. Papini’s chameleonic personalities drove her to simultaneously crave
family security and the freedom of youth," the filing states. "While these
are not unique feelings, in her they were pathological. Her life was
painful until she married and began a family of her own."

After running away from her husband and family, she returned and continued
to spew lie after lie, "terrified that she had actually destroyed the one
thing in her life that brought her true love and happiness, her family,
desperately praying that the day of discovery would never come," Portanova
wrote.

"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.

Portanova added: "It is hard to imagine a more brutal public revelation of
a person’s broken inner self. At this point, the punishment is already
intense and feels like a life sentence."

Prosecutors call the probation office’s recommendations insufficient.

CALIFORNIA MOM SHERRI PAPINI CHARGED WITH FAKING 2016 KIDNAPPING

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.

Papini claimed to have been kidnapped and held at gunpoint by two Hispanic
woman, whom she described to investigators – and an FBI sketch artist –
and told a tale of her time in captivity. But during repeated interviews
she changed her story or was not able to provide key details,
investigators alleged.

"In truth, Papini had been voluntarily staying with a former boyfriend in
Costa Mesa and had harmed herself to support her false statements,"
prosecutors said in a press release announcing her March 2022 arrest.

Prior to the plea deal, Papini was facing 34 counts of mail fraud and one
count of making false statements.

She instead pleaded guilty to a single count of each, and a restitution
payment of up to $300,000. More specifically, she was ordered to pay
nearly $149,000 to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office; at least $127,568
to the Social Security Administration; $30,694 to the California Victims
Compensation Board, and more than $2,500 to the FBI, according to court
papers.


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