The Californian mother who Pleated guilty in 2022 To charges related to her own kidnapping six years earlier is back in court, this time fighting her ex-husband for visitation rights with their two children.
“Our family has really been followed, stalked, bullied and bullied by the media for eight years,” said Sherri Papini in a court requesting a Friday visit According to KRCR. “I did my best to stay private to concentrate on my children and to cure the events that happened. Many years after my arrest I was the primary caretaker of our children before I served my time in prison. My children have always been my most important focus.”
Papini wants to be able to see the children again after an eight-year-old Saga who received the attention of the international press and was even the subject of a Hulu documentary.
Her ex-husband, Keith Papini, fights to protect the children of the couple against their mother.
Lawyers for both parties argue for their case before Judge Kathryn J. Barton of the Shasta County Superior Court.
Sherri Papini leaves a hearing in Rescue, California on Friday, March 21, 2025. Papini previously served 18 months in the federal prison for the forging her own kidnapping in 2016. (Derek shook for Fox News Digital)
In November 2016, Sherri Papini left her salvation, California for a jog and did not return. She appeared 22 days later bound, beaten and with a brand on her shoulder 150 miles from her house, claiming that she had been abducted weeks earlier by two Spanish females.
For years, local and federal law enforcement spent an enormous amount of resources trying to resolve the alleged crime, only to discover that Papini had remained in Costa Mesa with an ex-boyfriend during the three weeks she misses.
A “missing” sign for Sherri Papini, while the authorities were looking for her for 22 days in 2016. (Andrew Seng/The Sacramento Bee Via AP, File)
She was finally linked to her ex-boyfriend by DNA evidence, and he came clean with authorities, and Charged in March 2022 With 35 counts of post fraud and one count of lying against a federal officer.
Her husband, Keith Papini, submitted for divorce And the custody of their children immediately afterwards.
Later in the year she accepted a plea and admitted her guilt in a census and the indictment against a federal officer.
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She was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but Released in 2023 After about 11 months behind bars.
Sherri Papini, center, leaves the federal court building after federal judge William Shubb convicted her to 18 months in the federal prison, in Sacramento, California, Monday, September 19, 2022. Federal public prosecutors had asked that she was convicted of her own abduction in 2016 for up to eight months. (Rich Pedrroncelli / AP)
Fox News Digital reached the lawyers for both parties.
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