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Posted on 10/18/2021 9:14:30 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
The California mom accused of encouraging sex abuse at booze-fueled parties she arranged for young teens has long been known as a “liar” who leaves a trail of destruction in her wake wherever she goes, a source close to the family told The Daily Beast.
Shannon O’Connor, 47, is accused of a breathtaking array of crimes in Los Gatos, a wealthy Silicon Valley suburb where prosecutors say she lured young teens to “secret” parties, plied them with booze, and encouraged them to engage in “sometimes nonconsensual” sex acts. She was arrested last weekend on a fugitive warrant in Eagle, Idaho, where the source believes she had rented a home to lay low.
There were 10 underage boys and two underage girls at the home where O’Connor was staying when she was arrested—and most of them had spent the night, according to authorities.
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She is also facing felony fraud charges in a separate case, accused of running up more than $120,000 in unauthorized expenses on a company credit card while working as an administrative assistant at Aruba Networks.
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An Epstein wannabe.
My wife reminds me on a regular basis that all men are pigs.
Pardon?
Im old
This didn’t happen back then
It’s newer thing
I would not have screwed the mothers of my friends would you have
“Her worth is far above Rubies” Proverbs 31.(pssst means you, too!)
Don’t devalue yourself over those freeper “guiltmongers”!
Frances McDormand hasn’t been taking care of herself ...
What a trashy person.
She’ll not enjoy start prison.
I’m sorry...and your witness to the point the Priest was making is appreciated.
Dave Chappell's latest comedy broadcast (which is getting roasted by certain elements of society) had a very insightful bit on #metoo. He basically said it was an empty movement, because if the high-profile women championing it were committed, they'd have fired their male agents and hired low-wage female workers and fixed things themselves.
It's a fair point. So yes, nobody is perfect and men can be boars. But men don't have a monopoly on swine-like behavior.
Pretty women and girls get lots of unhealthy attention.
I beg your pardon, you misconstrued my meaning; the moment's gone.
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Precisely.
The nice ones are...
She looks fine to me.
Well, it’s a good thing you won’t stand before The Judgement Seat of FReepers.
Yes, home to lots of investor money, lots of kept women, and no morals whatsoever.
well, shes one of the low end inhabitants of the high end LG ..
Yes, He does. Thank you.
And I’m thankful for my life and how I am, just as He made me. I’m very blessed.
Thank you.
It’s not unusual for people to say such things on the internet, as I’m sure you’re aware. A lot of it seems to do with where the culture is today.
I’ve even attended two churches (both Bible-believing) in recent years where the middle-aged senior pastors made comments about “ugly” and “unattractive” women from the pulpit.
One was a Baptist church where at the beginning of the service, the pastor was talking about how he and his sons had stopped to help a woman who had car trouble on the thruway. And, he added, “She wasn’t even good looking.” Perhaps not incidentally, he was removed from the pastorship not long after for committing adultery with a woman in the church.
The other instance took place in an urban non-denominational church of about 800 in attendance each week. It was mostly made up of college-educated professionals, many from the nearby state university.
During one of his sermons, the senior pastor talked about how he and his circle of friends during college had three rules for the women they would marry. One might have been that she must be a Christian, and I don’t remember another, but the third was that “she couldn’t be ugly.” That was followed by some laughter from those attending.
Now, I was already middle-aged at the time, have never been married, and I was and still am thankful for who the Lord made me to be. I’d been mature in faith for many years by then, too, so I know well and am confident in how God regards our physical looks. So that remark wasn’t as painful for me as it would have been when I was younger, or it might have been if I was married. But I was certain it was something that others in the church, particularly many young people, could be wounded by, and not in a godly way, in terms of needed correction that we humans don’t really care to hear, but wounding in a truly unchristian way.
So I decided to stay behind and speak with the pastor, who was actually a pretty youthful 60 or so, not to speak to him in an angry way, but to try to as sister and brother in Christ, to calmly, without being nasty, point out to him how a remark like that, especially from the pulpit, could wound many people, especially young people, in an area where they’re sensitive or even in despair.
So I did just that, and his first reaction was to say, “Oh, it was just a joke.” As is the trend today, his sermons contained quite a few jokes, and the church was very heavy on appealing through “entertainment,” and his thought seemed to be that whatever is just to entertain is okay. After a little more conversation he did apologize and give me a hug, but I was left me with the sense that his apology was shallow and more about PR than anything else, and he was just going to forget our conversation. I left that church not long after, but not over that alone. Although it was solid in some ways, they also had women performing baptisms, and the pastor was open to Genesis not being a literal account of Creation.
It can be hard to know when to say something to a pastor, or really, to anyone, over something said, since none of us is perfect and we all say things sometimes that we know as Christians we shouldn’t. But that remark crossed a number of lines. It wasn’t edifying, but to the contrary. It was something that even unbelievers wouldn’t say in most circumstances, as in to go up to a boss or co-worker and tell that person that he or she are ugly. It was something that people who are unattractive or sensitive about their looks would feel publicly humiliated by. And he still could have, and as a pastor, really should have, told his story in a gracious way, rather than for a very cheap laugh. I didn’t believe it was too much to expect of a pastor to steer clear of making premeditated jokes from the pulpit that belittle and shame people for the looks that God gave them.
I believe so. I’ve had friends for whom that’s the case. I will also add, though, that I’ve had a low income and so have lived in low-income neighborhoods, and even in my middle age, I’ve also been accosted by men a lot (and I will add, since people have pictures of such neighborhoods, by low-income men both white and black). I was “politely,” but explicitly propositioned within a few minutes of moving into my present home.
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