Allison Schardin, a 40-year-old mother of two from Blaine, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct after sexually assaulting two 15-year-old hockey players at a Roseville hotel. Her sentence: two weekends in jail, community service, and five years of probation. And her husband Anthony, who had filed for divorce weeks before the assault, has chosen to stay married to her.
Anthony Schardin, 52, confirmed the couple remains together in an interview with the Daily Mail months after his wife was placed on the sex offender registry. Asked whether they were still a couple, he offered a single word: "Yes." He added, "We're trying to stay under the radar about all that."
The timeline tells a story that defies easy explanation. Anthony filed for divorce in December 2023, roughly four weeks before his wife assaulted the two boys. Six weeks after her arrest, the couple jointly petitioned to move the divorce case to inactive status. About a year later, the case was dismissed entirely. Whatever drove Anthony Schardin to seek a divorce before the crime, the crime itself apparently reversed his course.
The criminal complaint, obtained by Law & Crime, laid out the facts in detail. On January 14, 2024, the Schardin family was on a "staycation" at a hotel in Roseville, Minnesota. That same hotel was hosting two teenage hockey players from Colorado who were traveling with their team.
Allison Schardin struck up a conversation with the boys in the hotel hot tub. She opened up about her marital troubles. At some point, her husband yelled down to her from their room: "If you don't come upstairs, our relationship is over." Instead of going upstairs, she exchanged contact information with the minors.
Later that night, after getting into a fight with Anthony, Schardin sent one of the boys a Snapchat message asking if she could come to his room. What followed, according to the complaint, was a sexual encounter involving two of the 15-year-olds while a third minor watched.
The victims told police they did not know how to "say no." One recounted Schardin telling him, as described in the complaint: "You already have a 38-year-old woman, a female in your bed, don't you want to do more."
These were children. They were away from home, staying at a hotel with their hockey team. And a grown woman, old enough to be their mother, as even she acknowledged, pressured them into acts they could not legally consent to.
Schardin did not simply walk away. The next day, she allegedly tracked the boys to a hockey rink where they were playing. The victims described the encounter as "really creepy" and said it left them "nervous."
After the boys returned home to Colorado, Schardin continued texting them. She begged them not to tell authorities. She apologized. The pattern is familiar in cases of adult sexual predators: groom, assault, then attempt to silence the victim through a mix of guilt and pressure.
Eventually, Schardin admitted her crimes to investigators. She pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
In January 2025, a court sentenced Allison Schardin to two weekends in jail, community service, and five years of probation. She was placed on the sex offender registry. She did not receive a prison sentence.
The New York Post reported on the case and Anthony Schardin's decision to remain married, drawing attention to the gap between the severity of the crime and the leniency of the punishment.
Consider the facts plainly. A 40-year-old woman met two 15-year-old boys at a hotel. She initiated contact. She escalated to a sexual encounter the same night. She pressured minors who told police they didn't know how to refuse. She stalked them the next day. She tried to cover it up. She admitted to all of it.
Two weekends in jail.
There is a reasonable question that conservatives and anyone concerned with equal justice should be asking: would a 40-year-old man who sexually assaulted two 15-year-old girls at a hotel, pressuring them after they said they didn't know how to say no, then tracking them down the next day and texting them to keep quiet, walk away with weekend jail time? The question answers itself. Cases involving adults who exploit trust and proximity to harm others routinely draw far harsher consequences when the perpetrator is male.
Anthony Schardin's decision to remain married to a convicted sex offender is his to make. No law compels him to leave. But the timeline of the divorce proceedings tells its own story.
He filed for divorce in December 2023. Whatever was happening in the marriage at that point was bad enough to take that step. Four weeks later, his wife sexually assaulted two teenagers. Roughly six weeks after her arrest, the couple asked the court to shelve the divorce. A year after that, it was dismissed.
Anthony Schardin has not offered any public explanation beyond his desire to stay "under the radar." He is not the defendant here, and he is not the one who committed a crime. But his choice, and the court's willingness to let a convicted child sex offender return to a household, is part of the broader picture of how the system handled this case.
The public record, as reported, leaves significant gaps. Did prosecutors seek a prison sentence? Was the guilty plea part of a deal, and if so, what were its terms? Were the victims or their families consulted about the sentence? What specific community service was imposed? The name of the hotel, the court that handled the case, and the exact date of Schardin's arrest remain unreported in the available coverage.
These are not minor details. When a convicted sex offender receives a sentence this light, the public has a right to understand how that outcome was reached. The victims, two boys who traveled from Colorado to play hockey and ended up assaulted by a stranger in their hotel, deserve that transparency at minimum.
The criminal justice system's treatment of female sex offenders has long drawn criticism from advocates who argue that women receive systematically lighter sentences for the same conduct that sends men to prison for years. This case fits that pattern with uncomfortable precision. A guilty plea, an admission, multiple victims, stalking behavior, an attempted cover-up, and the result is two weekends behind bars.
If the system cannot treat the sexual assault of children with consistent seriousness regardless of the offender's sex, it is not a system that deserves anyone's confidence. Two teenage boys learned that the hard way.
