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