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   Shannon Marie O’Connor, 51, the Los Gatos “party mom,” was found guilty   
   on 48 of 63 charges against her related to alcohol-fueled parties she   
   hosted where she pressured underage girls to have sex with boys she   
   helped intoxicate. Santa Clara County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen said   
   O’Connor would face at least 30 years of imprisonment pending   
   aggravating factors still to be considered by a judge on March 11. 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 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 charged in October 2021 with 39   
   counts, including 12 felonies.   
      
   Christina Hanks, a Santa Clara County sheriff’s detective, noted in a   
   report that “extremely intoxicated” minors at events where O’Connor   
   provided alcohol would be encouraged by the defendant to “engage in   
   sexual activity with each other.”   
      
   Hanks described several occurrences in which the children were left in   
   dangerous situations. A 13- to 14-year-old sober teen girl was asked to   
   care for “an extremely intoxicated” 14-year-old boy at a summer of 2020   
   house party, according to court documents.   
      
   The boy passed out “covered in his own vomit” and only awoke to vomit   
   more, court documents said. The defendant also advised against calling   
   for an ambulance when the girl asked for one, according to the   
   documents.   
      
   O’Connor rented a cottage in Santa Cruz for her son’s birthday in early   
   October 2020, according to court documents, which state that she asked a   
   group of his friends over Snapchat “what kind of alcohol they wanted.”   
      
   The drunk boys urinated on the property, threw up in the backyard and   
   stumbled and fell on the patio, the documents state. The homeowner   
   reported damage of $9,000.   
      
   In December 2020, O’Connor handed a drunk boy a condom and pushed him   
   into a bed with a drunk girl, who locked herself in the bathroom out of   
   fear, court documents state.   
      
   In another instance, O’Connor encouraged a girl to perform oral sex on a   
   boy, and in another episode she led a drunk boy into a room with an   
   intoxicated girl, and the male penetrated the girl with his fingers,   
   according to the documents.   
      
   O’Connor 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   
      
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