Woman who faked her own abduction after she 'vanished on jog' faces jail

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A woman who 'vanished' for three weeks while out on a run has pleaded guilty to faking her own abduction.Sherri Papini's, admission brings an end to a six-year-long ordeal, which began on November 2, 2016, when she disappeared while out jogging.Her husband Keith Papini reported her missing in her hometown of Redding, California, after the 39-year-old failed to pick their children up from nursery.The Mirror reports that the mum then mysteriously showed up 22 days later on Thanksgiving Day at the side of a road 120 miles away.

She had bruises all over her body and was shackled, with a number of reports suggesting that she had been branded by her alleged captors.She claimed to have been abducted and held captive by two gun-wielding Hispanic women for reasons unknown.Earlier this year prosecutors claimed that she inflicted the injuries on herself to substantiate her bogus claims.After a six year investigation, authorities announced that Papini had not been kidnapped, but was staying with her ex-boyfriend James Reyes at the time she went missing.On Monday she was asked by a judge whether she had been kidnapped, to which she answered "no, your honour", The Sacramento Bee reports."Did you lie to government agents when you told them you were kidnapped?” U.S.

District Judge William B Shubb asked."Yes, your honour," she replied.Papini pleaded guilty to to one count each of mail fraud and lying to a federal officer.She did not offer any explanation as to why she'd claimed two “Hispanic women” had kidnapped her at gunpoint and chained her to a pole for three weeks while depriving her of food.Investigators concluded she inflicted the injuries on herself or had her ex-boyfriend do it for her.Following the hearing yesterday she said