A Silicon Valley mother who turned her home into a hub for teen drinking and sex has been ordered to spend up to 35 years and 10 months in a California prison. Shannon O'Connor, also known as Shannon Bruga, was sentenced on Thursday following her March conviction on dozens of charges stemming from parties in Los Gatos, where prosecutors said she supplied booze to minors and orchestrated sexual encounters, including nonconsensual activity, between them, per NBC News.
O'Connor has already served enough time behind bars to effectively knock some of those years off, but she's still left with about 27 to serve—maybe less with good behavior. O'Connor was accused in court of plying young teens, mostly between the ages of 13 and 15, with everything from beer and hard seltzers to vodka and other spirits, then handing out condoms and spurring the kids into having sex with each other, per the Los Angeles Times. O'Connor's attorney argued in court that his client had been trying to help give her son's social life a boost during the pandemic.
The sentencing followed a hearing during which some of O'Connor's victims addressed the court, making impact statements. O'Connor, 52, also spoke herself, telling the judge and families that she'd spent the past five years reflecting on "what went wrong" and saying she wasn't there to offer excuses. She acknowledged that parents had trusted her and that she had "let you all down," adding that her own children have spent those years effectively without a parent. "They as well as your sons and daughters have suffered," she noted, adding, per KGO: "My actions are the cause for your pain, and I am ashamed."
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