Those charges were related to child endangerment and misdemeanor sexual battery, as well as two felony sex counts.<\/p>\n
Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara County district attorney, said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that O\u2019Connor would face at least 30 years in prison pending aggravating factors still to be considered by a judge on March 11.<\/p>\n
Final sentencing is set for March 26.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter many years and many, many victims, today there was justice,\u201d Rosen said on the steps of the courthouse. \u201cIt was a long wait, it was a long trial. There was a lot of hardship and pain and suffering, but with the jury\u2019s verdict today, there is now justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor\u2019s attorney Stephen Prekoski said his client was \u201ccrushed [and] very disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I can say it any better than that,\u201d he said at the news conference.<\/p>\n
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Shannon Marie O\u2019Connor was found guilty of 48 of the 63 charges against her.<\/p>\n
(Santa Clara County district attorney\u2019s office)<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor was indicted by a grand jury in November 2023 on 20 felony and 43 misdemeanor counts.<\/p>\n
The parties and incidents that spurred the charges took place from June 1, 2020, to May 3, 2021, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said O\u2019Connor provided so much alcohol to her son and his friends and other partygoers, mostly ages 13 to 15, that they \u201cwould vomit, be unable to stand, and fall unconscious,\u201d according to court documents.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor was arrested in Idaho after moving there in June 2021, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. She was extradited to California, where she was initially charged in October 2021 with 39 counts, including 12 felonies.<\/p>\n
Christina Hanks, a Santa Clara County sheriff\u2019s detective, noted in a report that \u201cextremely intoxicated\u201d minors at events where O\u2019Connor provided alcohol would be encouraged by the defendant to \u201cengage in sexual activity with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
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 \u201can extremely intoxicated\u201d 14-year-old boy at a summer of 2020 house party, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
The boy passed out \u201ccovered in his own vomit\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor rented a cottage in Santa Cruz for her son\u2019s birthday in early October 2020, according to court documents, which state that she asked a group of his friends over Snapchat \u201cwhat kind of alcohol they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In December 2020, O\u2019Connor 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.<\/p>\n
In another instance, O\u2019Connor 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. <\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor 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, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
In another case, she let a minor drive her sport utility vehicle in the Los Gatos High School parking lot while two other teens held on to the back; one fell off and was knocked unconscious, the district attorney said.<\/p>\n
Prekoski, O\u2019Connor\u2019s attorney, said the defense had a tough battle to wage. Neither he nor his client believed all the alcohol consumed by the teens was directly provided by O\u2019Connor, but instead could have been easily taken from her house.<\/p>\n
Prekoski said he disagreed with the district attorney\u2019s theory, which was essentially, \u201call bad, all the time, as bad as you can imagine it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northern California woman faces at least 30 years in prison after being convicted on 48 felony and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[229913,23,39540,28720,10237,74796,36604,136311,17260,229911,3,229914,116000,37698,229912,17338,21,19,22,20,25,24,2394],"class_list":{"0":"post-505087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-alcohol-fueled-party","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-boy","11":"tag-court-document","12":"tag-district-attorney","13":"tag-felony","14":"tag-girl","15":"tag-los-gatos","16":"tag-misdemeanor-charge","17":"tag-much-alcohol","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-news-conference-wednesday-afternoon","20":"tag-oconnor","21":"tag-prosecutor","22":"tag-santa-clara-county-courthouse","23":"tag-teen","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}