Sherri Papini has been sentenced to 18 months for carrying out a kidnapping hoax in 2016 that kicked off an expensive and resource-draining multi-agency search across California and stoked racist divisions in the community after she falsely claimed she’d been captured by two Hispanic women.
The sentence for the so-called “super mom”, as she was labelled in the press when it was thought that she’d been abducted, was handed down in a Sacramento courtroom on Monday morning.
