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Gaetz <jthomqx@gmail.com> wrote in news:smjpbp$l6g$80@news.dns-netz.com:

You don't seriously expect Democrats to ever tell the truth.

A white California "mom influencer" has been sentenced to 90 days in jail
for fabricating a story about a Latino couple trying to kidnap her
children.

Katie Sorensen was convicted in April of making a false report of a crime
after her December 2020 social media post that alleged a man and woman
tried to kidnap her two children in the parking lot of a Michaels craft
store in Petaluma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.

The accused couple were ultimately cleared by authorities of any
wrongdoing. The district attorney’s office said in April that Sorensen's
report to police was false and "resoundingly contradicted by the accused
couple as well as store video that was obtained."

Judge Laura Passaglia on Thursday ordered Sorensen to serve 90 days in
jail, 60 of which could be served on a work-release program, a news
release states. She was immediately taken into custody Thursday.

Sonoma County District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said the sentence was
fair.

"Our hope is that this measure of accountability will help provide some
closure to the couple that was falsely accused of having attempted to
kidnap two young children," Rodriguez said in a statement.

Sorensen's attorney, Charles Dresow, did not immediately respond to a
request for comment Friday.

In the social media video, Sorensen alleged that the couple had followed
her into the store, trailed her as she shopped with her children in a
stroller and made comments about her children’s appearance. The self-
described "mom influencer" went on to say that the couple gave her the "heebie-jeebies" and "weren’t clean-cut individuals."

Sorensen said she did not say anything to the couple because she was
"paralyzed with fear." She further alleged that they followed her out of
the store to her car and lingered near the stroller as she placed her
children in the vehicle.

She said in the video that the couple drove off after she yelled for help.

The couple denied her claims and told the Petaluma Argus-Courier that they
were at Michaels to buy Christmas decorations. They said they believe Sorensen’s false allegations were racially motivated.

Sorensen was arrested and charged in 2021 with three misdemeanor counts of making a false report of a crime. She was found not guilty on two of the counts.

In addition to serving time in jail, Sorensen was placed on informal
probation for a year during which she is prohibited from having a social
media presence, must complete a four-hour implicit bias training and
submit to warrantless search and seizure, the district attorney's office
said.

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

Noneya
1 day ago

If I was part of that couple this case would be far from over. After her
little slap on the hand 90 days. The day she gets out and is smiling and
happy it's finally over. I'd have a process server there at the gate to
hand her civil lawsuit papers and let her know it's not fully over just
yet she's still going to be paying in cash instead of time.

https://news.yahoo.com/mom-influencer-sentenced-90-days-212602079.html

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