'COOL MOM' Has Teens Young as 13 to DRINK, PERFORM SEX ACTS at 'Parties'

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Shannon O'Connor throws wild parties for her teenage sons at their Los Gatos, California mansion. O'Connor pressures teens as young as 13 to binge drink, smoke marijuana, and perform sex acts with each other, 'consensual' or not, while she watches.

O'Connor keeps the parties a secret from other parents and her own husband, even continuing them at a new address in Idaho. O'Connor now awaits trial on 39 felony charges, including child endangerment and sexual battery.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Sam Dordulian - Sexual Assault Attorney, Former Los Angeles County Sex Crimes Prosecutor, and Founder of Dordulian Law Group; Twitter: @DordulianLaw
Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta, Ga.; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University; Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022
Michael Bock - Former NYPD sergeant detective squad supervisor of special victims, owner of ‘First Rate Investigations ‘that specializes in adult survivors and child survivor civil cases;' Twitter:@F_R_Consulting
Anna Sonoda - Child Grooming Expert, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Author: “Duck Duck Groom: Understanding How a Child Becomes a Target”
Drew Penner - Reporter at the Los Gatan Newspaper; Twitter: @losgatan

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0:41.6	Wild booze and sex fueled parties become the talk of the town. But what is also talked about is the
0:53.2	fact that the party goers are as young as 13, 14, and 15. You heard me right. Wild booze and sex
1:04.5	fueled parties for teens. All at the home of the so-called cool mom. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
1:14.8	Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111. I can't help
1:21.4	but think about the movie Mean Girls with Lindsey Loham and the cool mom would just let the girls do
1:31.4	whatever they want to choose. We'll meet herself and played into drugs and alcohol and sex. Well,
1:41.2	art imitates life. Take a listen to our friends at NBC. The first complaint about Shannon O'Connor
1:48.1	Tula Skatos High School came from a parent in December 2020, according to internal school emails
1:53.3	obtained exclusively by the investigative unit. Shannon Bruga or O'Connor buys alcohol for teenagers.
1:59.5	My daughter overdosed on edibles. Then, interim principal Paul Robinson responded the same day.
2:04.8	We will follow up on this and inform the police. Two months later, February 17th,
2:09.6	a different parent sent an assistant principal a detailed multi-page email saying she had just filed
2:15.0	the police report alleging criminal contact by O'Connor with her child and at least five other 14-year-old
2:21.2	girls as well as at least one Fisher middle school student. A middle school student, 14-year-old
2:28.7	girls going to sex and booze, stoked parties and criminal contact by the cool mom with a girl
2:38.8	student, age 14, what in the hey? With me, and I'll start pedaling to make sense of what we know
2:45.9	right now. But first, I want to go to Drew Penner, investigative reporter with the listengotten
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