Sherri Papini

The husband of Sherri Papini, a California woman who admitted to making up a 2016 abduction that touched off a nationwide search, filed for divorce and.

In a plea agreement reached this month with federal prosecutors, she agreed to pay more than $300,000 in restitution. Sherri Papini has said she is "deeply ashamed" for making up the story and that she will "work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done." In divorce papers filed earlier this week in state Superior Court in Redding, a lawyer for Keith Papini noted that Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud and lying to a law enforcement officer and said that she is “under exceptional pressure with national media attention on her case.”

Keith Papini filed for divorce and child custody in California after his wife, Sherri Papini, pleaded guilty to charges she lied about being kidnapped in ...

“The fact that their mother lied to them on such a major issue is something they and I are having a hard time dealing with,” Keith Papini wrote. “And if that’s his choice, then God bless him.” Instead, court papers say, she was taken from Redding by an ex-boyfriend who allowed her to live 600 miles south in his Costa Mesa apartment during her disappearance. I feel very sad.” “Both I and especially our children were traumatized by her disappearance, and I spent much time and money trying to find my wife. The Papinis have two children, ages 9 and 7 and Keith Papini is requesting sole custody of them.

The dissolution of marriage papers were filed Wednesday along with Keith Papini's request for temporary custody of the couple's two children.

Thomas did not respond to a request for clarification, so it's unclear whether Keith Papini was involved in the statement or represented by Thomas. The filing says Keith and Sherri Papini separated on March 3, which was the day FBI agents arrested her. Keith Papini stated he doesn't want to say anything in the pleadings that "would inflame the situation or attract media attention." Sherri Papini is living with a relative in Butte County, according to the filing. In his declaration, Keith Papini says: "This family has been thrust into the national news as a result of the well-publicized activities of my wife, Sherri Papini. He said in the filing he wants to protect his two children from "the negative impact of their mother's notoriety."

The husband of shamed California “super mom” Sherri Papini has filed for divorce just days after she pleaded guilty to charges related to her sensational ...

In the years since the hoax kidnapping, he’s also publicly supported her and claimed he believed she was actually kidnapped. Sherri pleaded guilty Monday to lying to federal investigators and mail fraud as part of her scheme to fake her own kidnapping in 2016. In November 2016, Papini, a 39-year-old mother of two, was found about 150 miles from her home after being missing for three weeks.

The husband of Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, has filed for divorce and custody of the couple's ...

She told police she had been abducted and branded by two women who kept her chained in a closet. We, both children and I, need time to recover and stabilize." His wife had lied to their children about her disappearance, Keith Papini said in a court document.