A married Minnesota mother-of-two was given a light sentence after she admitted to sexually assaulting two underage boys she met in a hotel hot tub.
Allison Schardin, 39, was ordered to spend two weekends in jail after pleading guilty in October to third-degree criminal sexual conduct for assaulting a pair of 15-year-old Colorado hockey players at a hotel in suburban Minneapolis.
Schardin committed the crime on January 14, 2024, while on a staycation at the hotel with her husband and two children, then aged 8 and 12.
Judge Joy Bartscher of the Ramsey County District Court gave Schardin time served credit for the five days she spent in jail after she was arrested in February 2024, the Star Tribune reported.
Bartscher also ordered her to do 200 hours of community service and undergo court-mandated mental health treatment.
She can no longer have unsupervised contact with juvenile boys and will be forced to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years.
Schardin faced a maximum of eight months behind bars.
The victims were part of a youth hockey team from Colorado that was in Minnesota for a competition and staying at a hotel in Roseville, a suburb of Minneapolis.
Allison Schardin, 39, was ordered to spend two weekends in jail after pleading guilty in October to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection to her assault of a pair of 15-year-old hockey players from Colorado at a hotel in suburban Minneapolis
Schardin met the youth hockey players in a hotel hot tub in January 2024
Schardin told her victims that her husband was abusive and that she had just been in a fight with him, according to the criminal complaint
Judge Joy Bartscher was appointed to the bench in 2012 and later elected in 2014
According to the charges, Schardin initially met the teens in the hotel’s hot tub and said that she was having problems in her marriage.
She allegedly claimed her husband was abusive and confided in the boys that she had recently cheated on him with a college-aged hockey player, CBS reported.
The criminal complaint said her husband eventually came to the hot tub area and told her to return to their room or else their ‘relationship is over.’
After the teens went back to their rooms, Schardin contacted one of the boys via Snapchat asking if she could stay in one of their rooms since she had a fight with her husband.
When she arrived at their room, she asked the boys their ages and said they were young enough to be her kids, according to the complaint.
She eventually started talking about ‘sex and stuff,’ before asking the boys how sexually active they were.
She then got into bed with two of the boys and sexually assaulted them while a third boy watched, according to the criminal complaint.
After her arrest, Schardin admitted to having sexual contact with the two teens and asked for a condom, but ‘claimed she wasn’t going to go through with it.’
Schardin spent five days in jail after she was arrested in February 2024
Her Facebook page displayed a photo of her smiling alongside her sons at the time of the sexual assault
Prosecutors argued for the maximum sentence because they said she actively sought out the boys for sex.
‘The defendant’s behavior was not a momentary lapse in judgment. It was clearly planned. Why else would an adult exchange contact information with juveniles that she just met in a hotel and then later go to their room?’ prosecutors wrote in the filing ahead of sentencing.
The filing urged the court to ‘treat the defendant’s behavior as being no less serious than if the defendant were a man and the victims were girls. If the genders were reversed, there are few who would believe that leniency is appropriate.’
Prosecutors also laid out the harm that was done to Schardin’s teenage victims after the assault.
‘They have lost friends, and they have had to endure whispers and harmful comments from others, as if they were the perpetrators,’ the prosecutors wrote.
‘Both victims were initially suspended from their hockey team, though they were later reinstated after they explained what happened. That victory was short-lived, however, as team officials then decided to cancel the rest of the season.’
Schardin, who worked as a server at a local restaurant, had described herself as ‘a wife, truth seeker, boy mom, singer, and foodie’ on her social media profiles.
Her Facebook page displayed an old photo of her smiling alongside her sons in pictures shared shortly after the sexual assault.
Additional photos showed Schardin and her husband smiling with their children at church.
