Katie Sorensen, a 31-year-old mom influencer, was convicted on one count of making a false report of a crime after she claimed a couple tried to kidnap her children at a Michael's store in Petaluma, California, in December 2020.
On December 7, Sorensen took her kids to Michael's, made a purchase, got into her car with her children, and left the parking lot, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney's press release. Shortly after, she called and reported to the Petaluma Police Department that a couple had tried to kidnap her kids. A week later, she posted a video to Instagram, which subsequently went viral, discussing the attempted kidnapping "in an effort to raise awareness" and gave viewers more detail than she'd originally given to police, according to the press release. (Sorensen's Instagram account is currently private, but snippets of the video have been reposted across social media). Sorensen also appeared on local news, reiterating the false claim that a couple had tried to abduct her children and describing the perpetrators as not "necessarily clean cut."
When police followed up with Sorensen, she identified a local couple from the craft store's footage as the perpetrators.
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