Los Gatos 'party mom' who gave teens booze, pushed them to have sex faces lengthy jail sentence
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A Northern California woman faces at least 30 years in prison after being convicted on 48 felony and misdemeanor charges related to alcohol-fueled parties she hosted where she pressured underage girls to have sex with boys she helped intoxicate.Shannon Marie O’Connor, 51, known as the Los Gatos “party mom,” was found guilty Wednesday on most of the 63 charges against her at the Santa Clara County courthouse in San Jose.Those charges were related to child endangerment and misdemeanor sexual battery, as well as two felony sex counts.Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County district attorney, said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that O’Connor would face at least 30 years in prison pending aggravating factors still to be considered by a judge on March 11.Final sentencing is set for March 26.“After many years and many, many victims, today there was justice,” Rosen said at that news conference on the steps of the courthouse.“It was a long wait, it was a long trial.
There was a lot of hardship and pain and suffering, but with the jury’s verdict today, there is now justice.”O’Connor’s attorney Stephen Prekoski said his client was “crushed [and] very disappointed.”“I don’t think I can say it any better than that,” he said at the news conference.O’Connor was indicted by a grand jury in November 2023 on 20 felony and 43 misdemeanor counts.The parties and incidents that spurred the charges took place from June 1, 2020, to May 3, 2021, according to the criminal complaint.Prosecutors said O’Connor provided so much alcohol to her son and his friends and other partygoers, mostly ages 13 to 15, that they “would vomit, be unable to stand, and fall unconscious,” according to court documents.O’Connor was arrested in Idaho after moving there in June 2021, according to the district attorney’s office.She was extradited to California, where she was initially ...