Kidnapped couple gets $2.5M payout

THE CALIFORNIA couple falsely accused of staging a bizarre kidnapping hoax in 2015 will get a multimilliondollar settlement from the city of Vallejo and its police.

Victims Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn are due to receive $2.5 million after cops publicly dismissed their horrific ordeal as an elaborate fabrication, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“It’s now time to get past it,” Quinn’s mother, Marianne Quinn, told the newspaper. “It’s a nice amount of money, but when a house in the Bay Area costs a million and a half, it’s not a lot. I was hoping they would get enough to buy a house and send their kids off to college.”

The couple, both 32, are due to marry in September.

They sued the city of Vallejo in March 2016 saying the police department unfairly branded them liars who drained public resources with a “wild goose chase.”

Cops didn’t believe the couple’s claims they were blindfolded and drugged by a powerful assailant who whisked Huskins away to a cabin in the mountains and dropped her off hundreds of miles away with a pair of sunglasses.

The kidnapping was very real. During the two days she was abducted, Huskins was raped twice, her lawyers said.

Disbarred Harvard-educated lawyer Matthew Muller was later sentenced to 40 years in prison for the crime.