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Madison, Wis. A college student who faked her abduction and set off a desperate search was sentenced to three years’ probation Thursday and ordered to repay the police department at least $9,000. Audrey Seiler, 20, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of obstructing officers and read a statement in court in which she said severe depression had caused her to act irrationally. “I’m taking care of myself now, so someday people will see I’m still a girl to be proud of,” Seiler said. The Rockford, Minn., woman withdrew from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the incident and is in therapy. After her March 27 disappearance, dozens of volunteers slogged through marshes and woods as national TV broadcast surveillance footage of her leaving her off-campus apartment late at night with no coat or purse. She turned up four days later, curled in a fetal position in a marsh, and claiming she had been abducted at knifepoint. Her story soon crumbled, and investigators said she faked the abduction because she was upset over her fading relationship with her boyfriend.