A 38-year-old woman in the US was charged on Friday with criminal sexual conduct after having sexual contact with two 15-year-old boys. According to the New York PostAllison Leigh Schardin, a mother of two, was staying at the same Roseville hotel as a Colorado boys hockey team. According to court documents, she started talking to the teens in the hotel's hot tub on Jan. 14 and opened up about her marital problems.
After they all went back to their room, she sent one of the boys a Snapchat text saying she had just gotten into a fight with her husband and wanted to come to the teen's room. She reportedly asked the boys their ages and noted that they were young enough to be her children. Despite this, she began discussing sexual topics with them and slept with two of the boys.
The two boys said they felt pressured to perform sexual acts on her while a third boy watched. Finally, they asked her to leave. According to the allegations, she later showed up at one of their hockey games and texted the two boys after they got home.
Ms. Schardin was arrested Thursday and charged with criminal sexual conduct in the third and fourth degrees. She has to appear in court on Monday.
After her arrest, Mrs. Schardin told investigators that her husband and two children had gone to the hotel for a stay and that she had had a casual conversation with the boys around the pool. Star Tribune reported. She admitted to having sexual contact with two of the boys and asking them for a condom, but she “claimed she wouldn't go through with it.”
In a similar case, a 24-year-old former teacher in the United States recently admitted to sexually assaulting students as young as 13. New York PostCassidy Kraus was accused of sending obscene material to minors via the social media platform Snapchat. She was also accused of sexual activity with the minors. Kraus “knowingly spread[ed] obscene material” via Snapchat to one boy between January and May 2022, and to two others between January and June 2023 – the latter just before her wedding,