Shannon O’Connor was indicted last fall on charges she endangered teens by hosting liquor-fueled parties where she goaded them into sex.
LOS GATOS — One by one, more than a dozen teens laid out in incisive detail how one woman — extraordinarily determined to make her son socially accepted and sexually prolific — hosted booze-soaked parties where she urged them to drink themselves into reckless oblivion.
On Friday, more than 2,000 pages of transcripts from those October 2023 grand jury proceedings were released. They contain testimony from nearly three dozen witnesses, including investigators, parents, and the teens who participated in the parties. The young people broadly described an aggressive manipulation effort by O’Connor as she allegedly tried to hide the illicit gatherings from her husband and the greater Los Gatos community.
By and large, the friend group of more than a dozen young teens, split mostly evenly among boys and girls, gave corroborating accounts of O’Connor encouraging them to imbibe and engage sexually with each other, followed by her probing them about their experiences for — as Wise put it — her own sexual gratification.
The mother of Jane Doe 4 — who in a police report and testimony reported being nearly passed out on a bed in the homewhere she was sexually molested — told grand jurors that her daughter developed “a drinking problem that Shannon had taught her” and resulted in time in a residential treatment program.
The injured boy’s mother testified that her son nearly drowned in the tub after O’Connor dropped him off with no explanation. She said when she later contacted O’Connor, the defendant claimed ignorance said she “just gave him a ride.”
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