Sherri Papini, 40, pleaded guilty last spring under a plea bargain that includes paying more than $300,000 in restitution.
"Papini’s kidnapping hoax was deliberate, well planned, and sophisticated," prosecutors wrote in their court filing. And she was still falsely telling people she was kidnapped, prosecutors said, months after she pleaded guilty in April to staging the abduction and lying to the FBI about it.
"Outwardly sweet and loving, yet capable of intense deceit ... Ms. Papini’s chameleonic personalities drove her to simultaneously crave family security and the freedom of youth," defense attorney William Portanova wrote in his responding court filing. Prosecutors said Papini’s ruse harmed more than just herself and her family. "An entire community believed the hoax and lived in fear that Hispanic women were roving the streets to abduct and sell women," they wrote.
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