A Minnesota mother of two admitted to sexually abusing a pair of 15-year-old hockey players that she met in a hotel hot tub during a “staycation” with her husband and children.
Allison Schardin, 39, pleaded guilty on Friday to third-degree criminal sexual conduct after she pleaded not guilty to the disturbing allegations in May, according to reports.
Schardin, of Blaine, was at a hotel with her spouse and two children on Jan. 14 when she spotted the two teen athletes, who were traveling from Colorado with their team, and struck up a conversation with them, according to a complaint obtained by Law & Crime.
While she was with the boys in the hot tub, her husband yelled, “If you don’t come upstairs, our relationship is over,” the complaint states.
Schardin exchanged contact information with the victims and later texted one of them to see if she could come to his room after getting into a fight with her husband.
She allegedly told the boys they were young enough to be her kids, but then pressured them into sex acts with her while a third boy watched, according to the complaint.
“You already have a 38-year-old woman, a female in your bed, don’t you want to do more,” she said, according to one of the victims.
“(Victim 1) described feeling stuck in the moment and did not know how to say no,” the complaint reads. “He said that in his head, his response was ‘not really’ but he responded by saying ‘sure,’ though he ‘wasn’t totally on board with it.’”
Following the encounter, Schardin then tracked the boys down to a rink where they were playing a game the next day.
“(Victim 1) said they all started getting nervous and he was shaking on the bench at one point because he wanted to leave what happened the night before in the past and she was trying to follow them, ‘it was really creepy,’” the complaint stated.
Once the boys traveled back home, she reached out to both of them. She asked one of them not to tell authorities and apologized to the other boy for going to their room during the exchange of messages.
During an interview with investigators, Schardin fessed up to joining three boys in a hotel room and having sexual contact with two of them. While she told police she asked if anyone had a condom, she claimed she would not go through with that sex act, according to the complaint.
“I think I just, things were starting to progress and, um, I think I thought about it for a moment and then I just was like, yeah, no, that’s not …, and I think at that point it was pretty evident that V1 was kind of uncomfortable,” according to the complaint from Law & Crime.
In exchange for her guilty plea, another criminal count was dismissed and prosecutors agreed to jail time of no more than eight months, the Star Tribune reported. She must also register as a predatory sex offender.
Her sentencing is set for Jan. 10, 2025, according to CBS News Minnesota.
