An Oregon father allegedly drugged his daughter's 12-year-old friends with mixed milkshakes and later watched them fall asleep during a sleepover, according to police.
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. of press.
Officers responded to a hospital in August 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 Meyden, their friend's father, made mango smoothies and “insisted they drink them,” according to an affidavit. of probable cause, FOX TV Stations reported.
The girls watched movies and got facials in the basement before Meyden allegedly pressured them to drink the blended shakes.
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An Oregon father allegedly drugged his daughter's 12-year-old friends with mixed milkshakes and later watched them fall asleep during a sleepover. (Lake Oswego Police)
The milkshakes had “little white bits all over them and sprinkled on top,” the girls told police.
One girl tried to refuse the milkshake, but Meyden allegedly insisted she try it. She later said that she took a few sips but that she did not drink much of the shake, and Meyden monitored her consumption and she became angry when she observed the girls drinking each other's drinks. She claimed that she gave each of them a different colored reusable straw and insisted that they drink from her own cup.
Police said 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 she “could feel him watching her by her presence while she kept her eyes closed, pretending to be asleep,” according to the document. She said she believed he was “doing tests to make sure we weren't awake,” including allegedly putting his finger under a girl's nose and moving a girl's arm and body on the bed twice during his repeated trips. to the basement where we girls were sleeping.
Officers responded to a hospital in August after three 12-year-old girls tested positive for benzodiazepine, a depressant that produces sedation and hypnosis. (Getty Images)
The girl remained awake out of fear that Meyden “was going to do something,” according to the affidavit. She texted her mother asking her to come pick her up because she didn't feel safe with Meyden.
“Mom, please pick me up and tell her I had a family emergency,” the girl texted her mother at 1:43 a.m. “I don't feel safe. I may not answer, but please come find me (crying emoji), please. Please. answer. Please. PLEASE!!”
The affidavit says the girl was eventually able to contact a family friend who came, picked her up and woke up the girl's parents, who notified the other girls' parents.
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. The parents informed him that they would bring their children home immediately.
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The milkshakes had “little white bits all over them and sprinkled on top,” the girls told police. (Lake Oswego Police)
One of the girls allegedly couldn't walk on her own and kept asking “what happened,” prompting her parents to take her to the hospital. When officers spoke to the girl 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 counts 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 delivery of a controlled substance to a minor. .
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He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court and posted $50,000 bail.
According to court records, Meyden and his wife divorced on October 17, less than two months after the sleepover. They owned a home in Lake Oswego at the time of the sleepover.
