MINNEAPOLIS - A Plymouth man has admitted drugging his daughter's friend and sexually assaulting her.
Hennepin County prosecutors say 53-year-old Michael Bruce Cameron entered a guilty plea to one count of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct Thursday morning as his trial was about to begin. Under a plea agreement he will serve four months in the workhouse and be on probation for 10 years. If he violates terms of the agreement Cameron faces a two year prison sentence.
"That a man would drug the daughter of a close family friend in order to engage in sexual assault is hard to comprehend," said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. "This man will be in the criminal justice system for a long time, and rightfully so, since he clearly is a menace."
Investigators say Cameron's daughter invited a 20-year-old friend to sleep over the night of Feb. 13. The two young women were going to watch a movie and Cameron brought them graham crackers with frosting on the top. After eating them, the girls talked about how dizzy they felt and soon fell asleep, according to a criminal complaint. A number of days later, the young woman told her mother that she thought Cameron had taken her to his bedroom and performed a number of sexual acts, but it was all fuzzy.
During court Thursday, Cameron admitted that he put ground-up sleeping pills into the frosting that he spread on the crackers. He also admitted that once the victim was physically incapacitated by the drug, he groped and sexually molested her.
The same victim reports a similar incident involving Cameron back in the spring of 2014, but charges in that case will be dropped at his sentencing. The young woman only told police about that incident when she reported the February assault.
