One of the 12-year-old girls allegedly given a drug-laced mango smoothie by her friend’s father during a sleepover said the creepy Oregon dad pretended to sleep while the girls pretended to be asleep. He claims that he was “testing” whether he was conscious or not.
The child sent a frantic text to a family friend begging for a ride from her Lake Owego home, and the friend’s 57-year-old father forced her and two other girls to drink smoothies laced with benzodiazepines. He accused her of drugging him and putting her in danger. It’s a depressant that slows down the nervous system, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Post.
“So, while I was ‘sleeping’, her father came down and said, [I’m] hug [one of the other girls] “Because she was scared and he kept pushing us away from each other but kept testing us to see if we were awake,” the unidentified girl texted. I wrote it in
“Also, [the other girl] She didn’t want to wake up, she did for about two seconds, but she kept her eyes closed and didn’t say anything,” the girl added before a family friend agreed to pick her up.
When a family friend arrived at the house, the girl stood to collect her belongings and was greeted by her creepy father, Michael Maiden, who “appeared to be drunk” and slurred his speech as she left. But he didn’t try to stop her, the girl said. .
Maiden turned himself in to Clackamas County Jail on Wednesday after a grand jury indicted him on multiple felonies and misdemeanors stemming from the Aug. 26 sleepover from hell.
The girl also used a “very large door” to get shoes from the garage during her escape and was “concerned” that one of the other girls didn’t wake up when she slammed the door, police said. told.
After the girl was brought back home by a family friend, she woke up her parents, who decided to drive to Maiden’s house at 3 a.m. to pick up the other two girls, the documents state. is stated.
The next day at the hospital, one of the girls told Lake Oswego Police Detective Nicole Palmeri that she still felt hot, lightheaded and clumsy, while the other child “felt unconscious. He said he couldn’t remember what happened.
One of the three girls, who is usually a light sleeper, fell into a “deep, deep sleep” that she had never experienced before, her mother said.
When the same girl returned home, she could not walk and had to be carried into the house, but she kept asking “what happened” until her parents decided to take her to the hospital.
Police observed one of the girls “walking slowly, balancing with the help of her mother, her eyelids heavy, and speaking slowly.”
According to the affidavit, none of the girls or their families were particularly close to the Maidens and they were never at their home prior to the sleepover, but Maiden said his wife’s first language at the time was Japanese. Therefore, Maiden arranged it.
Police have not speculated on a motive.
Maiden is charged with causing another person to ingest a controlled substance and applying a controlled substance to another person’s body.
Court records show Maiden and his wife, who divorced late last year, owned a home in Lake Oswego at the time of the outing.
Maiden pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court, and his bail was set at $50,000.
