SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — A girl who attended Shannon O’Connor’s parties inside a Los Gatos mansion described the social environment as “misogynistic.” At the secret parties, many guests were 14-year-old Los Gatos High School freshmen, and the only adult present was O’Connor, the girl, identified as Jane Doe 6, testified Tuesday.
O’Connor, also known as the “Los Gatos Party Mom,” is standing trial and charged with 63 counts for alleged crimes stemming from the 2020-2021 school year. It was the same year that the COVID pandemic closed schools, teens were distance learning online, and O’Connor’s son was on the LGHS football team.
Boys treated girls “like sex objects” at the mother’s boozy parties, Jane Doe 6 testified. “I was assaulted, and my friends were assaulted multiple times,” she told the jury.
Jane Doe 6 and other alleged victims said O’Connor pressured underage teens to sneak out of their homes at night while their parents were sleeping, drink heavily at O’Connor’s mansion, and “hookup.”…