John Jefferson
Left: Allison Schardin (Facebook/Allison Schardin). Right: Schardin’s mug shot (Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office).
A Minnesota mom avoided serious jail time after she admitted to sexually abusing two boys at a hotel while they were at a hockey tournament and she was on a “stay-cation” with her husband and two kids.
Allison Schardin, 39, was sentenced to two weekends in jail with credit for five days served and ordered to 200 hours of community service, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. She will also be registered as a predatory offender for a decade, the newspaper reported.
Prosecutors were asking for eight months of jail time, court records show. Schardin in October pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct after she talked her way into the boys’ hotel room by saying she wanted to get away from her abusive husband and engaged in sex acts with them.
While Schardin’s punishment was relatively light, the victims “suffered enormous harm,” prosecutors said
From the state’s sentencing memorandum:
They have lost friends, and they have had to endure whispers and harmful comments from others, as if they were the perpetrators. 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. Despite being a skilled and dedicated hockey [player], Victim #1 was denied placement on other two teams. There is no rational explanation for this other than that it was because of this incident. Victim #1 hopes to make the most of his hockey journey. The defendant’s behavior nearly derailed those hopes. Victim #2 gave up hockey entirely for a while but luckily has recently started playing again.
The state argued that Schardin’s behavior “was not a momentary lapse in judgment” but was “clearly planned.” Schardin “manipulated” the teens by saying she needed to get away from her husband and then “took advantage of them,” prosecutors said.
“She was the adult,” prosecutors wrote. “The victims were children. The defendant was supposed to be responsible.”
Prosecutors also argued that if the genders were reversed — the perpetrator a man and the victims girls — “few would believe that leniency is appropriate.”
As Law&Crime previously reported, the plea deal resolved the case that began on Jan. 14, 2024, when Schardin apparently approached the victims in the hot tub of a hotel in Roseville, began complaining about her marriage — which records show is headed toward divorce — and then said she had recently cheated on her husband with another hockey player, according to the complaint obtained by Law&Crime.
The complaint, citing one of the victims, said that Schardin, on a “stay-cation” with her husband and kids, was in the pool area with the victim when her husband appeared and yelled something like “If you don’t come upstairs, our relationship is over.” But rather than acting to salvage a marriage that was apparently on the ropes, Schardin exchanged “socials” with the victims and contacted a victim later via Snapchat, asking: “Can I come into your room?”
Once there, she was accused of telling the minors she was 38 years old, that “they were young enough to be her kids,” and that she was “saying things like, ‘let’s just do more,’ ‘let’s have sex,’ ‘we’re already here,’ ‘You already have a 38‐year‐old woman, a female in your bed, don’t you want to do more?””
According to prosecutors, one of the victims recalled thinking “not really,” but nonetheless said “sure” to Schardin because he didn’t know how to say no to her.
The very next day, when the victims were playing hockey, Schardin allegedly texted them while the game was in between periods to confirm they were at the rink she showed up at.
“[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 said.
Schardin was further accused of staying in contact with both victims after they returned home to Colorado, even attempting to convince one of them not to tell the police “what happened.”
“After returning to Colorado, Schardin texted [Victim 1] saying words to the effect of, ‘I will do or say anything you want, just don’t tell the police or report what happened,’” the complaint said. “[Victim 1] responded that he didn’t want anything from her, that he wouldn’t report it and that she needed to leave him alone. He then blocked her. [Victim 1] does not know who made the report to police.”
Schardin went on to be arrested on Feb. 1. When she was interviewed by police, she allegedly said the victims invited her to their room.
“She said that some of the younger boys invited her to their room, an invitation she accepted so she could get away from her husband,” the complaint added.
She admitted to joining three boys in a hotel room and admitted to having sexual contact with two of them, documents said. Schardin allegedly said that she had asked if anyone had a condom, though she insisted she was not going to go through with it.
“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 [Victim 1] was kind of uncomfortable,” the complaint said.
Matt Naham and Alberto Luperon contributed to this report.
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