A white
California woman who styled herself on social media as a “mom influencer” has been ordered to spend three months in prison for falsely accusing a Latino couple of attempting to kidnap her children.
State jurors in Sonoma county found 30-year-old Kathleen “Katie” Sorensen guilty in April of knowingly making a false report of a crime in a case that involved her publishing a December 2020 social media post that asserted a man and a woman had tried to steal her two children from her in the parking lot of a Michaels craft store about 40 miles outside San Francisco.
Authorities said both the accused couple and store surveillance video “resoundingly contradicted” the account given to them by Sorensen.
And on Thursday, Judge Laura Passaglia gave a 90-day prison sentence to Sorensen, two months of which could be served through a work release program, according to
a statement from the local district attorney’s office……..
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