Sherri Papini fights for custody of her children — Transcript
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- 0:00Sher Pini the California mom who spent
- 0:02time in prison for faking her own
- 0:04kidnapping now battling for custody of
- 0:06her children ABC zaren Shaw is in Los
- 0:09Angeles with more on what happened in
- 0:11court zaren good morning good morning
- 0:13with Sher pini's ex-husband says she is
- 0:15a danger to their children after she
- 0:17gained national attention for faking her
- 0:19kidnapping and hurting herself after
- 0:21losing her marriage losing her freedom
- 0:23for almost a year the big question is
- 0:25whether she can have custody of her
- 0:28kids Sher pap crying in court during her
- 0:31contentious child custody hearing as her
- 0:33ex-husband argued the mother of two who
- 0:36faked her own kidnapping is not safe for
- 0:39their children my position today is that
- 0:42she should not be Al with the children
- 0:44her ex-husband Keith saying he learned
- 0:46through the children going to therapy
- 0:48that Pini would allegedly torment their
- 0:50kids having them smell rubbing alcohol
- 0:53and forcing them to visit a doctor
- 0:55making a case for supervised visits
- 0:58Keith claiming Sher exhibited erratic
- 1:01Behavior were almost walking on
- 1:03eggshells because anything would set her
- 1:05up she did fact burn herself she did in
- 1:08fact hit herself with hockey Puffs and
- 1:12everything else and once I knew that
- 1:14that was the reality I of course didn't
- 1:17feel sick with the kids P's attorneys
- 1:19saying she has changed since the arrest
- 1:22Mr has gone through an enormous amount
- 1:25of growth 9 years ago Pini faked her
- 1:28kidnapping on a jog Keith calling 911 so
- 1:32I'm like totally freaking out thinking
- 1:33like somebody like grabbed her after 22
- 1:36days Pini appearing bruised and branded
- 1:40150 M away from home are you chained up
- 1:44yes she claimed two Hispanic women
- 1:47abducted her but officials concluding
- 1:49she faked the kidnapping and spent 3
- 1:51weeks with a former boyfriend Pini
- 1:54eventually pleading guilty to one count
- 1:56of making a false statement and male
- 1:58fraud pini's fa IST brought in by her
- 2:01team as a co-parenting expert also
- 2:03testified in court saying that after
- 2:05multiple Psychotherapy sessions with
- 2:07Pini since 2022 he believes she was
- 2:11abducted I'm gathering from your
- 2:13testimony that you're uh in The Believer
- 2:16camp that she was actually abducted yes
- 2:20Keith supporting papini until her story
- 2:22came under scrutiny divorcing her after
- 2:25the charges she used my children the
- 2:28times that they were home and I wasn't
- 2:29there
- 2:30to help her carry on this fake abduction
- 2:35after serving 10 months behind bars
- 2:37she's now fighting for custody I'm not
- 2:40optimistic that she's going to win this
- 2:41case Sher Pini has not shown that
- 2:43there's been any change in circumstances
- 2:46that the children need to see more of
- 2:48her or that she's changed at
- 2:51all as of right now the judge says Pini
- 2:53will get 1hour monthly supervised visits
- 2:56but pinii did not speak yesterday they
- 2:58ran out of time that the next hearing is
- 3:00set for May 20th and so all eyes will be
- 3:02on her and if she can make the case that
- 3:04she has changed Gio yeah case that the
- 3:07nation was following all right thank you
- 3:08so much zorine
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