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 emergency custody of the couple’s two children, according to court documents obtained Friday.
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.”
The filing said that she “has not been acting in a rational manner” and that their children, 9 and 7 years old, “should not be subjected to the traumatic chaos if she attempted to take actual custody.”
In a statement, Keith Papini said that his goal was to provide a safe, stable environment for their children.
“I am asking that the court help me protect my children from the negative impact of their mother’s notoriety,” he said.
A lawyer for Sherri Papini, 39, declined to comment Friday.
Sherri Papini has not offered an explanation for the fabricated kidnapping plot, which involved two Hispanic women who she claimed held her at gunpoint and branded her.
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