How US party mom courted kids with Snapchat, Tiffany jewellery, drunken parties

O’Connor listens in a courtroom on Oct 20, 2021 in San Jose, California. Bail was denied for O’Connor, a California mother accused of hosting alcohol-fuelled parties for her teenage son and his friends where she encouraged them to drink and have sex with intoxicated girls. — Bay Area News Group via AP

SAN JOSE, California: For months, they thought Shannon O’Connor was the adult in the room. As far as they knew, their 14- and 15-year-old kids were hanging out with the Los Gatos mom’s charismatic freshman quarterback son, playing ping pong and swimming at the family’s US$4.7mil (RM19.50mil) French Colonial-style home in the hills.

Little by little, their kids’ strange behaviour hinted that something disturbing was going on.