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A California woman took wanting to be a ‘cool mom’ to a nightmarish level.

Shannon O’Connor, 47, is accused of a breathtaking array of crimes in Los Gatos, a wealthy Silicon Valley suburb where prosecutors say she encouraged sex abuse at booze-fueled parties she arranged for young teens.

She posed as a cool mom but was luring children into her home, ploughed them with an alarming amount of alcohol and laughing when boys sexually assaulted intoxicated girls in rooms she facilitated for that purpose, while sometimes doing similar things herself.

This destructive lady was arrested and charged recently with 63 charges including child endangerment for furnishing alcohol to minors and aiding and abetting sexual assault.

Prosecutors say that O’Connor staged six alcohol-fueled parties in 2020 at her then-home in Los Gatos and other places. Seventeen alleged victims testified at the grand jury hearing, the paper said, per The New York Post.

The Daily Beast reports that O’Connor, who also goes by the name Shannon Bruga, was arrested last weekend on a fugitive warrant in Eagle, Idaho, where the source believes she had rented a home to lay low. There were apparently just under a dozen underage kids at the home where O’Connor was staying when she was arrested, and most of them had spent the night, according to authorities.

Crazy that she still had kids around after prosecutors allege she buys beer, vodka, whiskey and other liquor and encourages the teens, who are generally mostly 14 and 15, including her own sons, to drink to the point of unconsciousness.

At a December 2020 party, O’Connor allegedly handed a condom to a boy and pushed him into a room with an intoxicated girl. Both were minors. Luckily the girl had managed to lock herself in a bathroom before anything happened.

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Worse still, at a New Year’s Eve party at her home with about five 14-year-olds, O’Connor allegedly watched and laughed as a drunk teen sexually “battered” a young girl in bed, authorities alleged. In another case, she allegedly brought a drunk teen into a bedroom at her home where he sexually assaulted an intoxicated 14-year-old girl. That same girl told investigators that at another party she was so drunk she almost drowned in a hot tub.

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen called the allegations against O’Connor “deeply disturbing” in a press release this week.

“It took a lot of brave children to come forward and to untangle this deeply disturbing case,” Rosen said in a statement. “As a parent, I’m shocked. As the DA, I’m determined to hold those adults who endanger children fully accountable to the law and our community.”

The 15-page criminal complaint alleges that O’Connor also took part in sexual abuse herself, while also acting as facilitator:

On Dec. 31, 2020, O’Connor allegedly fondled and touched someone identified in court filings as Jane Doe 6, a 14-year-old girl, against her will. O’Connor is also accused of molesting underage kids on three other occasions, with three different alleged victims: two 14-year-old females and one 14-year-old boy.

At another party, a teenage boy fell off the back of O’Connor’s SUV after she allegedly plied her 15-year-old son and two of his friends with alcohol, then drove them to a high school parking lot and convinced one of them to drive around while the others hung on to the vehicle’s exterior. When one lost his grip, he fell to the pavement and hit his head, briefly losing consciousness and suffering a severe concussion.

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Meanwhile, a source close to the family told The Daily Beast that this is not a surprise:

“As far as when people say they’re surprised—I’m not surprised,” the source said, suggesting that O’Connor seems to thrive on creating chaos and does it almost habitually. “She’s like a bomb. Wherever she goes, she blows things up.”

She also apparently makes them keep the gatherings a secret and on several occasions helped teens sneak out of their homes in the middle of the night to attend them, according to court documents. When news of these parties and the disturbing antics threatened to leak, O’Connor apparently made sure the tattletales were bullied into silence.

O’Connor’s alleged behavior stems from the fact that she “just thinks she’s smarter than everyone else,” the source continued. “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.”

“Why does she do this? It’s for power, it’s for control,” the source explained, noting that she once witnessed O’Connor make lewd comments to a teenage girl, suggesting that the girl might be gay because she hadn’t performed oral sex on a male classmate. “She is controlling these kids because she can’t control the adults. This is a way to have everyone loving her, everyone liking her, these kids looked up to her. And the children made her feel wanted, made her feel powerful.”

Other parents in Los Gatos described her in the same terms one would a deviant sexual predator, with many students apparently breathing a sigh of relief that the wannabe “cool mom” was behind bars.

[source:nypost]