An Oregon father allegedly gave his daughter’s 12-year-old friends lace smoothies and then watched them fall asleep during a slumber party, police said. There is.
Michael Mayden, 57, who was indicted by a grand jury on multiple charges related to the Aug. 26 sleepover, turned himself in at the Clackamas County Jail on Wednesday, Lake Oswego police said.
In August, police responded to a hospital after three 12-year-old girls tested positive for benzodiazepines, a depressant that causes sedation and hypnosis. According to a probable cause affidavit, the girls had gone to a friend’s house the night before, and the friend’s father, Maiden, had made a mango smoothie and “insisted that they would drink it,” FOX reported. ” he reportedly told the police officer.
After watching movies and getting facials in the basement, the girls are said to have been pressured into drinking lace smoothies by Mayden.
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An Oregon father allegedly fed his daughter’s 12-year-old friend a lace smoothie and then watched them fall asleep during a slumber party. (Lake Oswego Police Department)
The girls told police the smoothie had “small white lumps all over it and sprinkled on top.”
One of the girls tried to refuse the smoothie, but Maiden insisted she try it. Afterwards, she said she didn’t drink much, though she took a few sips of her smoothie, and Ms. Maiden monitored her intake and saw the girls sipping each other’s drinks and she He said he was furious. He claimed he gave each student a different colored reusable straw and required them to drink from their own cups.
After drinking the smoothie, one girl reported feeling “lightheaded, hot and awkward,” before collapsing and falling into a “deep, deep sleep,” police said.
Another girl managed to stay awake and “as she pretended to be asleep and closed her eyes, she felt him looking at her due to his presence,” the documents state. She said that during his repeated visits to the basement where the girls were, he did things like put his finger under the girl’s nose and twice move her arms and body on the bed, “when we “We are conducting tests to confirm that he has not woken up,” he said. I was sleeping.
Police responded to the hospital in August after three 12-year-old girls tested positive for benzodiazepines, which have sedative and hypnotic effects. (Getty Images)
The girl didn’t wake up because she was afraid Maiden was “trying to do something,” the affidavit said. She sent an email to her mother asking her to come pick her up as she felt unsafe around her Maiden.
“Mom please come pick me up and tell my family there is an emergency,” the girl texted her mother at 1:43 a.m. Please pick it up. please. please!!”
The girl eventually contacted a family friend who had come to pick her up and woke up the girl’s parents, who then notified the other girl’s parents, according to the affidavit.
When the other girls’ parents drove to pick them up at Maiden’s house at 3 a.m., Maiden resisted and asked them to return in the morning. His parents told him they would be taking his children home soon.
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The girls told police the smoothie had “small white lumps all over it and sprinkled on top.” (Lake Oswego Police Department)
One of the girls was unable to walk on her own and kept asking “what happened,” so her parents took her to the hospital, police said. According to her affidavit, officers spoke to the girl less than 12 hours after drinking the smoothie and found that the girl “walked slowly and was able to balance with the help of her mother. His eyelids were heavy and he spoke slowly.”
Maiden was indicted on February 26, six months after the sleepover took place. He faces six felonies and three misdemeanors. The charges include three counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, three counts of subjecting another person to a Schedule 4 controlled substance, and three counts of delivering a controlled substance to a minor.
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He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court and was released on $50,000 bail.
According to court records, Maiden and his wife divorced on October 17, less than two months after the sleepover. At the time of the sleepover, they owned a house on Lake Oswego.
