Re: Carlee Russell pleads guilty, avoids jail after falsely reporting her own kidnapping

On 22 Mar 2024, "Leroy N. Soetoro" <[email protected]>
posted some news:[email protected]: 

> https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239983143/carlee-russell-pleads-guilty-
> avoids-jail-time-kidnapping-hoax
> 
> Carlee Russell, the former Alabama nursing student who went missing
> for two days last July after telling 911 she found a stranded toddler,
> has pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to falsely reporting
> her own kidnapping.
> 
> Russell has admitted that she was not kidnapped and did not see a
> young child on the side of an interstate.
> 
> In a Jefferson County, Ala., circuit court Thursday, Russell pleaded 
> guilty to two misdemeanor counts for filing a false police report. She
> was ordered to pay nearly $18,000 in restitution and was sentenced to
> 12 months of supervised probation, community service and evidence of 
> continued mental health counseling.

Not good enough.  

> During the sentencing, Judge David Carpenter also suspended Russell's
> two six-month sentences, as said it would be a "waste of government
> resources" to put her in jail.

Another case of failing to hold a criminal accountable.