A “Party Mom” accused of throwing booze-fuelled sex parties for teens before watching them engage in lewd acts kept her alleged victims virtually captive, a witness has claimed.
Shannon O’Connor, 50, lured teens to secret “drunken and destructive house parties” in her California home, where she pressured underaged kids to engage in “sometimes non-consensual” sex acts, prosecutors say.
One alleged victim, known only as “Jane Doe 7″, said: “There was no escape.”
The teenager said she was dating O’Connor’s son when the pair were aged 14.
They attended alleged binge-drinking parties at the mom’s $4million home in 2020, KRON reported.
O’Connor is on trial for allegedly throwing wild gatherings for Los Gatos High School freshmen.
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She is accused of supplying them with large amounts of alcohol and watching them perform sexual acts.
The teen said she dumped O’Connor’s son before his mom allegedly told the girl in a menacing manner: “We know what you did.”
The witness said: “It was harder to escape from her than her son.
“She knew my every move. When I started to move on, I was shamed for it.”
The alleged victim claimed she went to the party because she felt lonely during the 2020 pandemic lockdown.
“I felt like I had nobody. I was lonely,” the teen told a San Jose court on Tuesday.
She also testified that on one occasion, police approached O’Connor’s vehicle when both of them were inside.
The teen claimed there were “empty cans everywhere” in the car.
O’Connor calmly told her to throw a duffle bag containing 30 full cans of beer and the empty cans into the trunk, the teen alleged.
“She was horrifically calm in this scenario,” the girl claimed.
Cops spoke to O’Connor before taking off shortly after, the teen said.
O’Connor haspleaded not guiltyto her charges – including child molestation, furnishing alcohol to minors and endangering or injuring the health of a child.
She faces a total of 63 felony and misdemeanour charges.
The alleged sicko was arrested in 2021 in Ada county, Idaho.
A source close to her family told The Daily Beast that they were not surprised when they heard of the charges against O’Connor, 47, because the mom is a “liar” who is usually surrounded by trouble.
“She’s like a bomb. Wherever she goes, she blows things up,” said the source, adding that O’Connor “just thinks she’s smarter than everyone else”.
“Almost like a narcissist, one of these people who really pulls you in at first and you want to be their friend, but there are so many horrible lies.”
O’Connor used text messages and Snapchat to organize the parties, where the teens would drink until they were sick or passed out, according to court documents.
O’Connor is also accused of selecting rooms in her house where the teens could have sex, and of pressuring girls to engage in sexual activity.
According to the criminal complaint, the mom not only encouraged the sexual activity but also took part in it herself.
She is accused of fondling a 14-year-old girl against her will on December 31, 2020, and of molesting two 14-year-old females and one 14-year-old boy on three separate occasions.
O’Connor is also accused of allowing and inciting sexual assault at her home.
In one case she allegedly “watched and laughed as a drunk teen sexually battered a young girl in bed”.
Prosecutors also claim O’Connor provoked a sexual assault when she “brought one drunk teen into a bedroom at her home where an intoxicated 14-year-old girl was lying in the bed”.
The parties allegedly went on throughout 2020 and March 2021, and several teens were injured as a result.
One boy reportedly suffered a severe concussion after O’Connor took him and others to a parking lot and made one of them drive around while the others hung on to her SUV’s exterior.
According to authorities, O’Connor worked to make sure the parties stayed secret, and even got some teens to harass and threaten a girl she suspected was leaking information.
O’Connor also kept the parties hidden from her now ex-husband, tech executive Robert Amaral.