SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — Los Gatos “Party Mom” Shannon O’Connor’s Google searches have been detailed in new court documents, exposing a glimpse of her suspected motives earlier than, throughout, and after she allegedly hosted alcohol-fueled intercourse events for underage youngsters.
O’Connor has pleaded not responsible to 39 expenses filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office in connection to a string of disturbing events between the summer time of 2020 and February 2021. The alleged victims have been female and male Los Gatos High School college students, together with O’Connor’s teenaged sons, prosecutors mentioned.
The DA’s Office is gearing up for O’Connor’s preliminary listening to, set to start on November 6. Ahead of the listening to, prosecutors filed a collection of motions to the decide that include new details about their case, O’Connor’s anticipated protection, and proof of intent — together with Internet searches.
Shannon O’Connor listens in court. (Pool photograph / Anda Chu / Bay Area News Group)
When investigators seized O’Connor’s cellphone and traced her Google searches, they discovered search entries together with, “Good books with young sex,” “hot 16 (year) old teenage girls,” “prettiest 16 year old girl,” in keeping with court documents obtained by KRON4.
Her telephone additionally contained a number of movies that had been downloaded from women’ social media platforms, together with TikTok. “The videos show young girls who appear to be underage. They are dressed in revealing clothing. There is no evidence that the girls in these videos were personally known to defendant,” court documents state.
(KRON4 photograph / Amy Larson)
O’Conner, 48, allegedly lured women to her home by internet hosting events, gave minors alcohol, and “facilitated sexual encounters” between girls and boys, “some consensual and some nonconsensual,” prosecutors wrote. Victims informed investigators that the “Party Mom” watched as they have been sexually assaulted by boys.
“Evidence admitted at preliminary hearing will show offenses alleged above were committed by defendant as a result of sexual compulsion and for the purpose of sexual gratification,” Assistant District Attorney Rebekah Wise wrote.
O’Conner had an M.O. that she carried out for months, court documents state. According to Wise, O’Conner “helped minors sneak out of their homes in the middle of the night without their parents’ knowledge. She would communicate via Snapchat or text message, pick them up … and drive them to her home. She got the children under her care so drunk that many children would vomit, be unable to stand, and even lose consciousness. She urged them to engage in sexual activity with each other.”
Shannon O’Connor attends an arraignment listening to along with her legal professional Sam Polverino in San Jose on October 20, 2021. (Anda Chu /Bay Area News Group)
Some of the events have been thrown on the “Party Mom’s” Los Gatos mansion when her husband was not dwelling. Others have been organized at Airbnb’s in Lake Tahoe and Santa Cruz.
O’Connor was “very opinionated” about women that have been allowed to attend her events, prosecutors wrote. “She would reject girls as guests by saying they weren’t ‘pretty enough’ or didn’t ‘put out,'” court documents state.
The mom risked the wellbeing of minors for her personal sexual gratification, investigators mentioned.
On Dec. 19, 2020, “John Doe 2” suffered a concussion throughout an evening of consuming with O’Connor and different teenagers contained in the Los Gatos mansion. At one level, O’Connor drove the group of teenagers to Los Gatos High School. “John Doe 2” was hanging onto the again of O’Connor’s SUV in the highschool’s parking zone when he fell and was knocked unconscious for 30 seconds.
A apprehensive bystander known as 911. When Los Gatos Police Officers discovered the SUV, the “Party Mom” satisfied them that she had the state of affairs beneath management and that she would take the kids dwelling. “Defendant instructed John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 to lie to their parents about what occurred that night,” Wise wrote.
Afterwards, O’Connor’s telephone contained Google searched together with, “What to do for a concussion in a teenager,” and “cracked skull.”
Prosecutors mentioned O’Connor’s husband, Robert Amaral, was fully unaware of his spouse’s events. Amaral reportedly filed for divorce earlier this yr.
During an emotional listening to held in April, victims stood up in the courtroom and informed the decide private tales about how O’Connor impacted them. One woman, “Jane Doe 8,” informed the decide, “This woman tore my life apart. I have suffered and had to deal with the reputation of being ‘the girl that got raped.’ I will live my high school years with this cloud over me.”
“Jane Doe 8” mentioned, “Shannon doesn’t have a conscience. She is a con-artist. I will never have the life I once had. And neither should she.”
“Jane Doe 9” informed the decide that she has nightmares. The woman mentioned, “She is a manipulator and a narcissist. She continues to show signs of no remorse.”
Shannon O’Connor attends an arraignment listening to in San Jose on October 20, 2021. (Pool / Anda Chu / Bay Area News Group)
Once O’Conner realized that Los Gatos police had begun investigating her in 2021 for suspected felony acts, she fled along with her sons out of California and moved to Eagle, Idaho, investigators mentioned.
After she moved to Idaho, she Googled questions on legal guidelines towards offering minors with alcohol, arrest warrants, and statute of limitations, court information present. O’Connor typed in Internet trying to find: “can I get prosecuted in California if I live in Idaho,” “how do I if there is a warrant for my arrest,” “supplying alcohol to minors in a private home,” and “statute of limitations California,” in keeping with court documents.
When the she was arrested in October 2021, law enforcement officials mentioned they discovered O’Conner in her new Idaho dwelling with 12 underage youngsters who had slept over the evening earlier than.
Not lengthy after she was booked right into a Santa Clara County Jail, O’Conner known as her 15-year-old son from jail and instructed him to not cooperate with investigators, in keeping with court documents.
Prosecutors wish to block media cameras from the courtroom
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office filed a motions in limine on August 14 asking the decide to set guidelines for the preliminary listening to. One of the motions urged the decide the bar all media cameras from the courtroom.
A second movement requested a remedy canine, named Percy, to take a seat subsequent to victims whereas they testify on the stand. All 15 of the alleged victims in the case are minors, prosecutors wrote, and a number of the teenagers are requesting Percy for consolation whereas they testifying about traumatizing occasions.
Prosecutors filed a 3rd motions to incorporate proof associated to extra conduct, occasions, and patterns that didn’t outcome in expenses.
“The uncharged incidents make it clear that defendant’s action were not a mistake or accident,” Wise wrote. Prosecutors “anticipate that defendant will claim that at least some of the charged incidents were accidents. (O’Connor) engaged in the same conduct over and over again, even after seeing the consequences,” Wise wrote.
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O’Connor’s protection crew will doubtless attempt to argue on the listening to that she believed sexual contact between the youngsters was consensual, court documents state. “In order to combat this argument, it is necessary to put on evidence of how many times defendant saw children being sexually abused and still continued to encourage the assaults,” Wise wrote.
O’Connor stays behind bars in Elmwood Correctional Facility with no bail. She is going through practically 40 counts, together with endangering or accidents the well being of a kid, sexual battery, annoying or molesting a baby, little one endangerment, and furnishing alcohol to an individual beneath 21.
Her preliminary listening to is ready to start at 9 a.m. on November 6 in courtroom division 39 of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice.
