The California woman who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology is set to be sentenced on Monday
Sherri Papini, 40, pleaded guilty in April to two counts of mail fraud and making false statements for carrying out the elaborate fake kidnapping and receiving more than $30,000 in victim compensation.Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence her to eight months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, saying the hoax wasted resources and hurt others, according to a sentencing memo filed by the US Attorney's Office.
"Papini caused innocent individuals to become targets of a criminal investigation," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo."She left the public in fear of her alleged Hispanic capturers who purportedly remained at large."How new DNA technology helped solve the caseA break came in 2020, when investigators took unknown male DNA on clothing she was wearing and tested it using the technology known as genetic genealogy.
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