10 Disturbing Details of Dad Who Allegedly Drugged Daughter's Friend's Smoothies

an Oregon man stands accused of drugging the smoothies his daughter's young friends were drinking during a sleepover and now some of his former co-workers say this isn't the first time he's shown potentially creepy Behavior we're discussing the criminal charges the disturbing details from an affidavit and more with a claimed personal injury and sex abuse attorney David ring welcome to sidebar presented by law and crime I'm Jesse Weber hey everybody this is a law and crime legal alert and a law and crime YouTube takeover Google incognito track users browsing data without their knowledge well Mass Tor Alliance one of our legal sponsors is helping users file for compensation due to Google misleading the privacy of their Incognito browser so if you've used Google incognito anytime since 2016 you can start your claim in less than 10 questions just go to incognito claims.com /lc takeover 57-year-old Michael Maiden has been out of jail on $50,000 bail in Oregan since March when he was charged with multiple felonies what am I talking about well prosecutors accuse maiden of making mango smoothies for his pre-teen daughter's friends during a sleepover and spiking those drinks with benzo diazines we're going to get into the exact details from a very disturbing affid dve it in just a moment and I want to warn all of you there's no other way to say it it's going to make your skin crawl what I'm about to get into but I prefaced it so Maiden was reportedly a human resources manager for an energy company in Lake as Wego Oregon and a former co-worker says that when they look back on it some of maiden's questions about their lives maybe seem a little creepy one male colleague told the Daily Mail and New York Post he always wanted to know about our families he'd ask about my kids how old they are what extracurriculars they liked then he'd tell me what his kids were up to it seemed really innocent at the time that same coworker says that Maiden started liking his daughter's cheerleading photos on Facebook he would ask questions about her he knew my kids' names and ages he kept track of that stuff I thought he was just being nice but after Maiden was arrested in March and the affidavit was made public things took a very Sinister turn for that let me bring on David ring a claimed personal injury and sex abuse attorney David good to see you thanks for coming on um we are about to go on a journey together as we go through this affidavit uh are you ready to do this I'm ready Jesse all right let's get into it so the document states that around 7 am on Saturday August 26th two officers were dispatched to the report of three 12-year-old female juveniles at Randall Children's Hospital in Portland they tested presumptive positive for Den benzo dipine during a urine Scream the report was made by the emergency room charged nurse the juveniles reported that they had attended a sleepover at their friend's home on the evening of Friday August 25th 2023 where they believed they had unknowingly been given drugs by their friend's father Michael Maiden let's start right there uh David what's your initial take unbelievable uh but clearly this guy is a predator and uh for those of you who don't know the there drug it's commonly referred to as benzos right and it's a Valium Xanax and it's the type of drug that if you take too much of it it it puts you into a deep deep deep sleep can knock you unconscious and clearly this guy had a a plan to to have these girls rendered unconscious so he could do something terrible to them I'm gonna get back to that because I'm I'm not entirely clear what the plan was if any um and to be clear he's not charged with any sex crimes right he's only charged and we'll get into the exact charges but he's only charged with allegedly drugging um these girls but let's continue on so the officer who wrote up this affidavit for the court did interviews with the girls and the parents quote during these interviews I learned none of the parties were particularly close with the maiden family or had been inside of their home the girls had attended the same school and had been acquainted there all the parents stated they communicated with Mr Maiden regarding the sleepover I learned Mr Maiden is responsible for arranging most of his daughter's play date Arrangements as his wife's primary language is Japanese the girls describe Mr Maiden to be very involved with their activities during the sleepover Mr Maiden has taken them to get their nails done pick up a pizza for dinner and directed their activities the girls explained Mr Maiden was constantly checking in on them and interjecting himself into their conversations the girl stated they played in the sprinklers went in the hot tub took showers and got ready for bed at Mr maiden's Direction the girls stated they spent the majority of their time in the basement where they were doing a spa night watching movies while they did facials David what do you think hey look I mean that can be taken two different ways okay so the way it's written in the affidavit it comes across as highly suspicious and and but but look there's plenty of dads out there that you know have sleepovers for their daughters and and the girls come over and the dad's these are 12y old girls the dad or the mom are supervising them so taking that its face okay I mean I I don't see anything wildly unusual there I think we need to get more into it to see what's going on but just read but just from what you've said there that can be that can be read two different ways let's not Indi every dad who has a sleepover at his house just yet okay fair enough and remember he is not charged with anything no no sexual related crimes not touching them anything like that okay so let's be clear but let's continue on so according to the girls and of course you know you have to say with any kind of witness there's there could and and David before I even get into it with any kind of witness right there could be credibility issues no matter how old or how young they are right so as we go through this it goes on before they were instructed to go to bed Mr Maiden prepared a series of mango smoothies with orange and coconut flavors for them to drink Mr Maiden insisted they drink them the girls were each served two smoothies in glass milkshake style glasses the smoothies were described as dull orange in color with tiny white chunks throughout and sprinkled on top the Smoothie consistency was described as having a thinner liquid with bubbles in it Mr Maiden specifically gave each of the girls specific colored reusable straws to distinguish their own drink Mr Maiden was adamant that the girls drink out of their own cups now the names of course are redacted here but it says quote one victim reported she drank two entire cups of the orange colored smoothie using a hot pink reusable straw another stated she drank one cup of the orange colored smoothie using an orange reusable straw and then the third stated she did not like smoothies and merely sipped out of a green or blue straw to be nice and barely drank any at all the third victim stated Mr Maiden encouraged her to try to drink and even made her a second smoothie and encouraged her to drink it but she did not she also said Mr Maiden accused the third victim and another victim of switching straws between their first and second cup and this upset him the fourth girl recalled drinking a significant amount of the Smoothie but didn't know how much that to me David seems a little suspicious we we've now crossed the line Jessie now now things are getting strange and weird because now you have a dad who's who's injected himself and it sounds to me by the reading of that that he's he's basically pressuring these 12-year-old girls and forcing them to drink these smoothies now that's weird that's creepy red flag alert right yeah well here's the thing if you thought this was already concerning enough a man paying really close attention to the girls insisting they drink these smoothies getting upset if one of them didn't follow the rules it actually gets worse because the 12-year-olds they go to sleep around midnight two girls on the pullout couch in the basement two in a bed in the back bedroom one of the victims explained that she and another victim were laying the same direction and her arm was over that girl's body and she stated at some point Mr Maiden came downstairs and she pretended to be asleep she stated that he removed her arm from the other girl's body and then separated them by moving the other girl's body further towards the opposite side of the bed and this concerned the victim so much that she rolled over and placed her arm on the other girl and she remained awake in fear that Mr Maiden was going to do something to her she stated that Mr Maiden went upstairs she stated she remained awake and sometime after Mr maid returned downstairs to check on them again so the victim stated that the second time Mr Maiden came downstairs he returned to the pull out couch she stated he removed moved her hand again from the other girl she said she saw Mr Maiden in the dim light place his finger underneath her nose as if to see if she was soundly asleep he then waved his hand in front of her face she stated she pretended to be asleep and shortly after he walked toward the sliding glass door and went outside into the backyard the victim said she was scared and began to text and call her parents repeatedly now the officer in the affidavit says I observed a series of text messages from the victim to her mother at 1:43 a.m. mom please pick me up and say I had a family emergency I don't feel safe I might not respond but please come get me uh she was crying and then used the crying Emoji please please pick up please please the victim called and texted several friends requesting a ride David what is going on there is a lot to unpack there Jesse but but look I mean the first thing that strikes me is this young girl what what a heroin I mean to have the the courage to to realize something is wrong and to text her parents and to make it crystal clear that that she needed to get out of there and was persistent about it there's not a lot of kids that would do that you know adults have great great sway over over young kids especially you know if they're the parent of one of your friends and most kids are just going to assume that they have good intentions and and and they would just go along with it so for this girl to realize how suspicious and creepy and and and wrong what this guy's actions were good for her and and clearly this Predator he he had a plan we'll get to it I'm sure but he had a plan he's going down there twice to see if they're asleep let's talk about that again he hasn't been charged with touching the girls any sex crimes he's only been charged with drugging them I I say only charge I mean that's pretty serious set of felonies but I don't understand what was going on here what the motive would be to do this um what's your take and again it's pure speculation at this point because we just don't know well I I don't think it's pure speculation I mean I I think I've been around enough cases that that this guy had a plan and his plan was to render these girls essentially unconscious and sexually assault one of them them that's my that's what I think was going on and thank God he didn't do that he didn't get away with it therefore no charges for sexual assault and he went outside and he went outside at one point and then came back in I I it's such a weird situation it's weird but clearly he had some plan to take advantage of them in an unconscious State and what could that possibly be what's the plan I mean the the the only one that leaps to my mind is is he's going to sexually assault one of girls in some some way but you wouldn't be able to charge that without more right without more you wouldn't be able to prove that exactly because he didn't get away with it thank God he didn't get away with it you know he he didn't this girl was able to put an end to it before he got that far but the the charges that he is the the counts he's charged with are very very serious they're felonies and he's going to go to prison for a while let let's we'll get to that in a second I want to continue on with the affidavit what happened next so she stated this victim Mr Maiden returned from the sliding glass door stood near the headboard for what she thought was 15 minutes she stated she could feel him watching her by his presence as she kept her eyes shut pretending to be asleep she said when he finally went upstairs she continued trying to get a hold of anyone she could to pick her up the girl did manage to get a hold of a family friend explained what was happening so the friend agreed to come get her and get this according to the affidavit the pre-teen says that Maiden came down the the to the basement a third time he went into the bathroom and she said this bathroom had an adjoining door to the bedroom that the other two girls were in and she was concerned for the other two girls in the bedroom so the victim States when she received a text message that the family friend was outside Mr Maiden came out of the bathroom the victim stated she immediately told him she had a family emergency and she was being picked up she stated Mr Maiden seemed drunk and explained he murmured and slurred his response he did not prevent her from leaving she stated that she went into the garage to retrieve her shoes using a very loud door she said she was concerned uh when the other girls didn't wake up that's why she apparently slammed the door so when the 12-year-old got home she woke up her parents from the redaction it's difficult to tell exactly what's going on but they're trying to call the parents of the other girls and at least two of the other parents were unable to be reached so they headed to maiden's house around 3:00 A.M the affidavit says that a mother appears to be a mother knocked on the door was met by Mr Maiden she explained to him she was there to take the girls home he replied I don't understand Mr Maiden stated he would go check on the girls the mother stood at the front door while Mr Maiden went back into the house and after a few minutes he return returned stated the girls were asleep insisted she come back in the morning fortunately they were able to convince Maiden to show them where the girls were sleeping they woke up the two remaining guests apparently leaving maiden's daughter there in the home David your reaction to that next part well okay a couple reactions one again great job by these parents who who believe their daughter who didn't just go oh come on you're you know you're you're exaggerating this there's no way this guy did anything like that and the other girls are fine they believed her and they actually did something about it they went over there and demanded that these other girls be be you know be taken out of the house so they could take them to their parents great job my other my other reaction of that is where where's Mrs Maiden this whole time where where's the where's the the the wife where where is she involved in all this how how does he get away with all of this going on with people knocking on his door with a girl slamming the door to leave where is the wife in all of this that that's that's an eyebrow razor to me it's a fair question maybe we'll get some more answers on that one um But continuing on with this affidavit so the officer apparently interviewed um another of the girls around noon on Saturday so that's about 12 hours after she drank the Smoothie the smoothies and the affidavit States um that she walks slowly used the assistance of her mother for balance her eyelids were heavy she spoke slowly she recalled starting to feel woozy hot clumsy shortly after drinking that second smoothie she couldn't recall what occurred upon blacking out um but the victim shared that she went into a thick deep sleep that she had never experienced before the officer States based on my interviews of parents and juveniles I know that none of the juveniles are prescribed have access to or experiment with recreational drugs and benzo diazines I have probable cause and believe it to be true Mr Maiden Sur surreptitiously provided and is responsible for the benzodiazapines found in the juvenile's body he has been charged with three felony counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance three Fel counts of applying a schedule for controlled substance to the body of a minor and three misdemeanor counts of delivering to a minor a schedule for controlled substance um now the a Aid doesn't mention where maiden's wife was during all of this we do know that she and Maiden were divorced within a couple of months of this incident but before an arrest he's due back in court next month talk to me about these charges and talk to me about if there's any kind of Defense innocent explanation uh for this because it seems pretty clear that they had these substances in their body if you take what the officer said there's nothing to suggest they were prescribed it that they were abusing this on their own the only way to get this into their systems was through the the shakes through the the smoothies is there any kind of defense is there any kind of innocent explanation for this um to these really serious charges I I don't see any defense to that look these are very very powerful drugs I mean let's assume as valium or xanax that's basically what we're talking about when we talk about benzos and and obviously those are prescribed and and you're supposed to take low dosage of those so if he is mixing that up into a smoothie and he's putting uh several of those pills in each smoothie that's going to have the exact effect that that girl described where she basically is is in the deepest sleep of her life and is in a trance and feels like she's unconscious and and has difficulty moving and so it seems crystal clear that the way that these girls were given those benzos was through the smoothies and who was the person directing them to drink the smoothies and had them all separated out with colored straws the perpetrator this dad I mean he clearly had a plan to get them to knock them unconscious if uh first of all how serious are these charges what are we looking at in terms of potential punishment if you know and is this the type of case where he would ultimately take a deal and what would a deal look like these are very serious charges I mean it's a it's a weird name you know causing another person to ingest a controlled substance but that's that's a technical legal name but the bottom line is those are serious felonies and he's charged with several of them and so he's facing you know significant jail or prison time for these and and look I I I think um if he rolled the dice and somehow went to trial and off offered up some sort of lame explanation of his role in all of this I I don't see anybody buying his story and the outrage Factor any parent out there any person out there who hears this just like you and I have the same reaction it's it's just pure outrage and they are going to to throw the book at this guy to make sure he is is is off the streets and in prison where he belongs well listen I I don't know what could have happened next I don't even want to imagine what could have happened next all I know is um I agree with you Brave actions from that girl to do that um this is a horrifying case it's even difficult for me to go through that affidavit some of the more more creepy details I've heard in quite some time David ring thanks so much for coming on giving your perspective uh really appreciate I wish it was a different kind of case we were talking about but um yeah really appreciate your perspective nonetheless sir all right thank you Jesse and that is all we have for you here on sidebar everybody 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Published: Fri May 03 2024