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SAN JOSE — Dozens of guilty verdicts covering sexual assault and child endangerment were issued following the three-month trial of a former Los Gatos woman accused of organizing raucous alcohol-fueled parties for her teen son and his friends, which authorities say provided an uncontrolled setting for dangerous binge drinking and sexual assaults of intoxicated girls.
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Shannon O’Connor, 51, has spent the past four-and-a-half years being held in Santa Clara County jail as her case dragged on through myriad delays, attorney changes, an ensuing criminal indictment that added more charges, and, since December, weeks of testimony from dozens of witnesses.
Her two sexual penetration convictions were the most serious, and ambitious, counts and alleged that O’Connor sexually assaulted two girls by proxy, under the prosecution theory that she allowed the victims to get so intoxicated they could not consent to sexual activity.
Los Gatos is a bedroom community outside of San Jose, about 60-Miles away from Sausalito/Marin City. This is one sick woman. Giving alcohol to underage teens, arranging sex parties. I hope spends the rest of life behind bars.
Mom found guilty of sex assault, child endangerment charges in Los Gatos teen sex party trial
Shannon O’Connor was charged with 63 combined felony and misdemeanor counts related to boozy pandemic-era house parties.
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Shannon O’Connor, 51, has spent the past four-and-a-half years being held in Santa Clara County jail as her case dragged on through myriad delays, attorney changes, an ensuing criminal indictment that added more charges, and, since December, weeks of testimony from dozens of witnesses.
Her two sexual penetration convictions were the most serious, and ambitious, counts and alleged that O’Connor sexually assaulted two girls by proxy, under the prosecution theory that she allowed the victims to get so intoxicated they could not consent to sexual activity.
Los Gatos is a bedroom community outside of San Jose, about 60-Miles away from Sausalito/Marin City. This is one sick woman. Giving alcohol to underage teens, arranging sex parties. I hope spends the rest of life behind bars.
