According to local reports, five other women attacked a California woman who is being held on more than thirty charges for allegedly hosting a string of underage sex parties in a jail in Santa Clara.
Shannon O’Connor, the 49-year-old mom who police allege invited 14- and 15-year-olds to wild parties with her sons behind her husband’s back in their $5 million mansion in Los Gatos, near San Francisco, has been held without bail since 2021.
According to court records, she allegedly gave 15 underage teenagers access to alcohol, complete control of the house, and encouragement to engage in sexual activity. At one party, she allegedly handed a drunk boy a condom and shoved him into a room with a 14-year-old girl.
O’Connor is accused of hosting parties at her house and is now facing 39 criminal charges, including sexual abuse, sexual battery, endangering a child, and providing alcohol to a minor.
According to court documents, five female inmates at the Elmwood Correctional Facility allegedly attacked O’Connor in October and beat her mercilessly, “likely [to] produce great bodily injury,” according to San Francisco-based KRON-TV.
According to court documents, the suspects—Erika Amaya, 45, Danielle Chavez, 24, Sophia Vigil, 35, Anita Quiroz, 36, and Marjaana Gardea, 28—began beating O’Connor for 16 seconds before deputies intervened.
After the assault, O’Connor was taken to the hospital before being sent back to the county jail.
According to the incident report, she didn’t intervene to defend herself.
In the child abuse case, she must return to court the following month.
Her husband, who was not charged in the scandal and filed for divorce after her arrest, is said to have used the Snapchat screen name “Nun” to communicate with her sons’ friends, inviting them over for the wild parties, advising them not to tell their parents, and occasionally leaving them completely unsupervised.
She moved to Idaho after the coronavirus-era parties, where she was detained in Ada County. There, her sons were given to the care of the state. Her ex-husband could not be reached right away for comment.
If found guilty, she could spend more than 20 years in prison and be required to register as a sex offender. An inquiry for comment was not immediately answered by her lawyer.
