Los Gatos mom handed maximum term for orchestrating teen parties and coercion

TL;DR
Shannon O’Connor, the Los Gatos “party mom,” was sentenced to 35 years and 10 months in prison after a jury found she hosted alcohol-fueled teen parties and pressured underage attendees to have sex, grooming and exploiting her son’s friends; prosecutors urged the maximum sentence, arguing the case was one of a kind and that victims endured lasting trauma.
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- Los Gatos party mom: Shannon O'Connor, sentenced to nearly 36 years for hosting drunken teen sex parties ABC7 Bay Area
- Los Gatos mom sentenced to over 35 years for throwing alcohol-fueled underage parties NBC Bay Area
- California’s ‘Los Gatos party mom’ sentenced to 35 years in prison The Guardian
- Los Gatos ‘Party Mom’ who hosted high school sex parties learns her fate: ‘I am ashamed’ Yahoo
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