Authorities reported that An Oregon father has been charged for allegedly drugging his daughter’s 12-year-old friends during a sleepover.
Michael Meyden, 57, turned himself in at the Clackamas County Jail on Wednesday after a grand jury indicted him on multiple charges in connection with the Aug. 26 sleepover, Lake Oswego police said in a statement. Press release.
In August, officers responded to the emergency room at Randall Children’s Hospital after three 12-year-old girls tested positive for benzodiazepine, a depressant that produces sedation and hypnosis.
The girls told officers they were at a friend’s house the night before for a sleepover where Meydenher friend’s father, made mango smoothies and “insisted they drink them”according to a probable cause affidavit cited by Fox News.
The girls watched movies and got facials in the basement before Meyden allegedly pressured them to drink the shakes, which allegedly had “little white bits all over them and sprinkled on top.”
After he gave them the shakes, The girls said he controlled their consumption and insisted that they all drink from their own glass.. I even put different colored reusable straws for each of them.
Shortly after consuming the drink, one girl reported feeling “dizzy, hot and clumsy” after drinking the shake before falling, passing out, and falling into a “thick, deep sleep.”
Another girl managed to stay awake and said Meyden made sure everyone fell asleep. She even moved their bodies and put a finger under their noses to make sure they were unconscious.
The girl stayed awake for fear that Meyden would do something to them and managed to send a text message to her mother asking her to come pick her up because she didn’t feel safe.
“Mom, please pick me up and tell her I had a family emergency. I do not feel secure. I may not answer, but please come find me (crying emoji), please. Please. answer. Please. PLEASE!!,” the girl texted her mother at 1:43 am.
The affidavit says the girl was eventually able to contact a family friend who picked her up and woke up the girl’s parents, who notified the parents of the other minors.
At 3 a.m., when the other girls’ parents went to Meyden’s house to pick them up, he resisted and asked them to return in the morning. However, the parents insisted on taking the minors.
One of the girls allegedly couldn’t walk on her own and kept asking “what happened.”so her parents took her to the hospital. When officers spoke to the child less than 12 hours after she drank the shake, they said she “walked slowly and used her mother’s assistance for balance, had heavy eyelids, and spoke slowly,” according to the affidavit. .
Meyden was charged on Feb. 26, six months after the sleepover took place. He faces six felony charges and three misdemeanors.: Three counts of causing another to ingest a controlled substance, three counts of applying a Schedule 4 controlled substance to another, and three counts of delivering a controlled substance to a minor.
He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court and posted $50,000 bail.
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