“You are horrible and I will always hate you for what you may have done,” said one of the women, while a mother accused the man of playing “Russian roulette with my son’s life”; he insists he “just wanted them to go to bed.”
An Oregon man who pleaded responsible for drugging smoothies he made for his daughter and three of her friends, all 12 years old, at a sleepover was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Based on The Oregonian57-year-old Lake Oswego resident Michael Meyden apologized as he entered a plea of guilty to three counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, stemming from the August 2023 incident. your personal daughter.
He was accused of putting benzodiazepines in mango smoothies.
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Three victims and two of their mothers reportedly appeared in court for a hearing, asking the judge to impose an extended sentence.
“I am disgusted by the way your face looks and your actions and everything you have completed. You are horrible and I will always hate you for what you may have done,” one of the victims said in court.
“We learned that adults are people we can trust, people we can turn to when we need help or when we are afraid. But adults are no longer people I can simply trust,” said another. “These are people who scare me and make me think twice: What if they hurt me the same way Mr. Meyden did? My life has turned into hell because of you and your actions.”
A third, who cited Meyden’s daughter as her best friend, said “he abused that belief.”
The mothers also let Meyden keep him after giving their own statements, with one telling the father: “You played Russian roulette with my son’s life. She’s only 5 feet tall and on a great day, 70 pounds soaking wet and you overdose.”
Added another: “No decent parent feels the need to drug their own child or their friends. No first-rate parent feels the need to go downstairs and make sure their children are unconscious. No decent parent puts their hands on drugged and unconscious young women without nefarious intentions.
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Speaking on his behalf during the hearing, Meyden said he “just wanted them to go to bed” so he could fall asleep too. “I was really obsessed with them going to bed, yes that’s true,” he added, saying he wanted everyone to sleep until 11pm on the night of the sleepover. Considered one of his lawyers, Jeff Turnoy, added: “He was trying to get the women to fall asleep and never sneak out of the house so they could interact in the actions the family had planned for the next day.”
“My whole life is destroyed. Everything that was important to me up until then is gone,” said Meyden.
The judge said she considered his repentance to be “genuine” and did not impose an extended sentence, instead adhering to the terms of the plea agreement reached with prosecutors.
The possible trigger statement, for PEOPLE, revealed more information about what allegedly happened that August night after Meyden’s daughter invited three friends over for a sleepover. The sleep occasion included a trip to the beauty salon, pizza, and time in the hot tub before showering and going to bed.
The three women were interviewed by police and alleged that he was “very concerned about their actions” throughout the evening, “consistently checking up on them and intervening in their conversations” while the women watched movies and had a “spa night.” inside the basement.
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He is accused of giving mango smoothies to all four women, providing them with “specific colored reusable straws to distinguish their own drink.” He was reportedly “adamant that women drink from their own cups” and “insisted they drink them”, with one lady saying the smoothies had “little white bits sprinkled on top”.
When a woman allegedly complained about the style, he made her another… before accusing the woman of swapping drinks with someone else when she barely touched that one either. “This upset him,” the statement reads.
The lady who didn’t finish her smoothie told police that Meyden came downstairs more than once during the night and tried to separate two of the women from each other while they slept. She claimed that she “felt him watching her with her presence while she kept her eyes closed, pretending to be asleep”, before saying that she began “taking tests to check that we were not awake”. According to the woman, he placed his finger under her nose “as if to see if she was sleeping soundly,” before “waving his hand in front of her face.”
She told officers she was “involved” and “remained awake, worried that Mr. Meyden would do something to” her sleeping companion.
When he left the room, the lady began frantically texting her mother.
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“Mom, please pick me up and tell me I had a home emergency. I don’t feel safe,” she allegedly texted her mother around 1:43 a.m. “I won’t answer, but please come and get me (crying emoji), please. Please choose. Please. PLEASE!!”
She eventually found a family friend, who came to pick her up. The woman told police she bumped into Meyden opening a basement bathroom as she tried to leave — saying he “seemed drunk” and “mumbled and babbled.” When the other women’s parents arrived to pick them up as well, about an hour later, he allegedly told them he didn’t “understand” what was happening, telling them to come back in the morning; the mother and father took their children home.
It is at the hospital, the following day, that the three women were interviewed by the police, who observed that even 12 hours after consuming the smoothie, one of the women was still “walking slowly and using her mother’s help to balance herself, her eyelids had been heavy and she or he spoke slowly.”
One of the women told authorities she remembered them all telling scary stories, before “falling over” out of nowhere when she stood up. She said she then passed out and went into a “deep, deep sleep” unlike any she had experienced before.
All of the women tested positive for benzodiazepines, which are often used to treat anxiety or insomnia. Common benzos include Valium, Xanax, Ativan, and Klonopin.
Less than two months after the August incident, Meyden and his wife divorced after 16 years of marriage and two children.
Meyden could reduce his sentence by 5 months for good conduct.
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