An Oregon man who drugged his daughter’s friends with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison.

An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison.

Michael Meyden, a 57-year-old from the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, apologized during his sentencing Monday after pleading guilty to three felony counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, The Oregonian reported.

“My whole life is destroyed,” he told the court. “Everything that was important to me up until that point is gone.”

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    1853·
    6 months ago

    I feel like dude can come back from this if he only did it cause he was fed up with their shit and wanted them to go to sleep. That’s just a really dumb mistake. The headline immediately makes you think rapey stuff might have gone on (or been the motive).

    • andyburke@fedia.io
      804·
      6 months ago

      … because rapey stuff seemed to start happening and may have continued if one of the girls didn’t text someone?

      dude was checking them for consciousness, something unnecessary if he only wanted them to sleep.

      if he was checking them to ensure they were alive, then he deserves a serious ass prison sentence as well, because he then clearly understood how risky what he was doing was.

      so … yeah, as far as I am concerned this guy seems like prison is the right answer.

      • circuscritic
        144·
        6 months ago

        Could go either way as he dosed preteen children with fucking benzos.

        I figured it was something like melatonin and the punishment might have been excessive, but nope.

        Intentions aside, that’s just really unsafe.

        Although now I’m curious if was at least measuring out the dose for each drink, or just tossing some undissolved pills in the blender and hoping it distributes evenly.

        Edit: Holy shit does that AP article leave out some details. This guy was definitely looking to abuse the kids

        • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
          5·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, sure looks like it:

          Investigators saw the text the girl sent a family friend. The girl’s message said Meyden “kept moving us away from each other but kept doing tests to make sure we weren’t awake,” according to the affidavit. She texted that one of the girls “won’t wake up,” the filing states.

          The court record says the girl saw Meyden return to the basement a third time and he “seemed drunk.”

          The only reason we know about it is because one of the girls didn’t drink the drug laced smoothies. The others that did were “groggy or blacked out” through the next day.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      4811·
      6 months ago

      No. Do not fucking downplay drugging children. You should delete your comment, it’s entirely unacceptable to drug your own children without their knowledge, let alone other children sleeping at your house. It’s not just a dumb mistake, holy shit do you have a bad take here.

      • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
        15·
        6 months ago

        It’s not just a bad take but a) dangerous and b) criminal. For any kids sake I hope that the commentor you replied to has no access to children.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      231·
      6 months ago

      It sounds like that was their argument at trial. But if you read the article, it tells you he did more than just drug them.