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Have you heard of the Sherri Papini case?

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Sherri Papini, the California mother who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison on Monday, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
Judge William B. Shubb determined Papini, 40, should serve 18 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release after she admitted to the hoax and pleaded guilty in April to mail fraud and making false statements. She was also ordered to pay nearly $310,000 in restitution.
The sentence was much longer than attorneys had requested. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence her to eight months in prison, while the defense asked for one month in custody and seven months of home detention.
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California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison | CNN

Sherri Papini, the California mother who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison on Monday, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
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Faking a kidnapping is so mean, that she should have got a much stricter sentence.
 
Wiki has got an article on this case:

An American woman named Sherri Papini disappeared from her husband and family on November 2, 2016, reportedly while out jogging a mile from her home in Redding, California.[1] Papini was 34 years old at the time. She reappeared three weeks later on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, having been reportedly freed by her captors at 4:30 that morning still wearing restraints, on the side of County Road 17 near Interstate 5 in Yolo County, about 150 miles (240 km) south of where she disappeared.[2]

The case garnered major media attention, with national law enforcement experts reporting doubts or otherwise baffled as to the unlikely details and inconsistencies of the reported abduction.

On March 3, 2022, Papini was arrested on charges of making false statements to federal law enforcement officers and for mail fraud. According to the DOJ, Papini fabricated the story of her abduction. She had reportedly been staying with a former boyfriend during the time she was supposedly missing and had harmed herself in order to give credence to her false narrative. She maintained her story when questioned by a federal agent and a detective from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office in August 2020, despite being advised that it was a crime to lie to a federal agent. From 2017 to 2021, Papini had received over $30,000 from the California Victim's Compensation Board.

On March 9, 2022, Papini was released from jail before her trial on a $120,000 bond and after surrendering her passport.[3] She and her lawyer had no comment on the allegations against her.[3] Papini had faced up to 25 years in prison between the charges of mail fraud and lying to a federal officer.[3] However, six weeks after her arrest, Papini signed a plea deal admitting that she had orchestrated the hoax.[4
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Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax - Wikipedia

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I once read that a smart cop never believes anyone until there is a thorough investigation.

So whether it is an alleged abduction or anything else (molestation, ethnic slurs, etc.), a wise person never accepts those allegations at face value.

Human beings are notorious liars.
 
TheParser said:
I once read that a smart cop never believes anyone until there is a thorough investigation.

So whether it is an alleged abduction or anything else (molestation, ethnic slurs, etc.), a wise person never accepts those allegations at face value.

Human beings are notorious liars.
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……….as opposed to other mammals………?
 
I just happened to have read this yesterday. As I understood it, the judge gave a longer a sentence than the prosecution asked for.
 
Rumpel said:
edition.cnn.com

California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison | CNN

Sherri Papini, the California mother who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison on Monday, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
edition.cnn.com edition.cnn.com

Faking a kidnapping is so mean, that she should have got a much stricter sentence.
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Good. She deserves it. What a piece of shit.
 
Rumpel said:
edition.cnn.com

California woman who faked her own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison | CNN

Sherri Papini, the California mother who faked her own kidnapping in 2016 in a hoax that was exposed with the help of advances in DNA technology, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison on Monday, according to a release from the Department of Justice.
edition.cnn.com edition.cnn.com

Faking a kidnapping is so mean, that she should have got a much stricter sentence.
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why do you think 18 months was an insufficient sentence, recognizing that the prosecutors only sought eight months of prison time?

who did she harm in the commission of this crime?
 
justabubba said:
why do you think 18 months was an insufficient sentence, recognizing that the prosecutors only sought eight months of prison time?

who did she harm in the commission of this crime?
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Wow, the list is long. Her family, police who wasted resources investigating, the public that paid benefits to her and who were traumatized by her false story, the Hispanic community that was slandered by her false story.... the judge actually listed them at sentencing.
 
NWRatCon said:
Wow, the list is long. Her family, police who wasted resources investigating, the public that paid benefits to her and who were traumatized by her false story, the Hispanic community that was slandered by her false story.... the judge actually listed them at sentencing.
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other than the unnecessary expenditure of investigative resources, this was a victimless crime

NO ONE WAS HARMED

o' the trauma the public faced

and that slander felt by the hispanic community ... apalling i tell you

the woman shacked up with a former boyfriend for a few days and made a stupid alibi as the cover for her absence from the family

meanwhile, killers roam the streets

this punishment does not fit the crime
 
justabubba said:
other than the unnecessary expenditure of investigative resources, this was a victimless crime

NO ONE WAS HARMED

o' the trauma the public faced

and that slander felt by the hispanic community ... apalling i tell you

the woman shacked up with a former boyfriend for a few days and made a stupid alibi as the cover for her absence from the family

meanwhile, killers roam the streets

this punishment does not fit the crime
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That's a rather bizarre and factually thin response. Resources that could have been used for real crimes were diverted. She scammed the public of hundreds of thousands of dollars from victim compensation benefits that should have gone to actual victims. And yes, false claims do defame communities. Why do you think she picked those particular "perpetrators"?
 
NWRatCon said:
That's a rather bizarre and factually thin response. Resources that could have been used for real crimes were diverted. She scammed the public of hundreds of thousands of dollars from victim compensation benefits that should have gone to actual victims.
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that she did, and restitution is in order and has been ordered by the court
NWRatCon said:
And yes, false claims do defame communities.
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and who is hurt as a result?
as an example, about every community has been recently alleged to having participated in 'grooming'
those who make such stupid statements are not placed in prison for expressing them

NWRatCon said:
Why do you think she picked those particular "perpetrators"?
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because there is already a bias against said group
people want to castigate boomers, whose mistep was to become elderly
easy targets through no fault of their own
but when was the last time someone was jailed for a diatribe against boomers?!

this 18 month active prison sentence far exceeded the crime that was committed
we have worse criminals seated in congress
 
justabubba said:
we have worse criminals seated in congress
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I'm done with the rest of your argument (which is still massively faulty, although I'm sure every thief and scofflaw would agree with it), but will agree with this comment.
 
Rumpel said:
Sorry, but that is nonsense.
Harm need not be physical - there are also other ways to harm people!
Don't you know?
In this case the whole of humanity was harmed.
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'bull shit' as all the response your post deserves

the woman hurt no one
she is responsible for repaying the cost of the investigation which she caused and the victim funds she was ineligible to receive, but as to the infliction of harm ... there was none
 
Rumpel said:
I beg to differ.
Instead of 18 months she should have got 18 years in prison - and that would still be not enough.
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18 years for having a tryst with her former boyfriend

that such a penalty seems inadequate to you tells the reader much about the reasonableness of your positions
 
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