A Los Gatos woman was sentenced to 35 years and 10 months in prison for hosting drunken parties involving mostly 14- and 15-year-olds. She bought vodka and Fireball whiskey, provided condoms, and encouraged silence by warning teens not to tell parents or police or to call for help. Victims described severe harm, including one person becoming suicidal from trauma. Testimony included instances where she watched sexual assault, laughed during abuse, and placed intoxicated minors together, including leaving an intoxicated girl in a bedroom with a boy after assault. After conviction, she later moved to Idaho, where deputies arrested her and found additional underage children at her home, with suspicion of similar parties.
"Shannon O'Connor, 52, bought vodka and Fireball whiskey, provided condoms, and discouraged the teens from telling their parents or police about the parties or calling for help when one of the victims passed out in their own vomit. The teens at these parties were mostly 14- and 15-years old. A jury convicted O'Connor in March."
"Jurors were told that O'Connor warned the victims not to disclose the parties, or she could go to jail. At one party O'Connor handed an underage teenager a condom and pushed him into a room with an intoxicated minor, according to testimony. During a New Year's Eve party with about five 14-year-olds, O'Connor watched and laughed as a drunk teen sexually battered a young girl in bed, one witnesss said."
"In another case, the defendant brought one drunk teen into a bedroom where an intoxicated 14-year-old girl was lying in the bed. After she was assaulted, the victim said to the defendant: "Why did you leave me in there with him? Like you knew like what he was going to do to me.""
"Deputies in Idaho, armed with a warrant from Santa Clara County, arrested her there, where they found 10 underage boys and two girls at her home. She is suspected of hosting similar parties in Idaho."
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