A woman from California has been jailed for 18 months after faking her own kidnapping back in November 2016.
Sherri Papini, 39, was sentenced for making false statements to the FBI after making out she was taken by two Hispanic women while out jogging. She was reported missing by her husband after she failed to collect their children from daycare, but appeared three weeks later, when she was found "beaten up" by the roadside, the BBC reports.
It was then she made the extraordinary kidnapping claims, insisting she had been abducted at gunpoint. But in March this year, the FBI came to the conclusion that the whole affair had been staged and that she had been staying at an ex-boyfriend’s house.
