An Oregon father accused of drugging his daughter’s 12-year-old friends at a sleepover last summer turned himself in on Wednesday, Lake Oswego Police announced.
Michael Meyden, 57, is facing three counts of causing another to ingest a controlled substance, application of a Schedule 4 controlled substance to another, and delivery of a controlled substance to a minor after detectives determined he allegedly exposed his daughter’s friends to a prescription drug, police said.
Staff at a local hospital had notified police on Aug. 26, 2023, of three 12-year-old girls whose bloodstreams contained the drug.
Meyden pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment on Wednesday, according to The Oregonian.
Police alleged that Meyden had laced mango smoothies with benzodiazepines, depressants that slow the nervous system, and served them to the three girls at his daughter’s sleepover, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by HuffPost.
Detectives noted that when they interviewed the girls on the morning after the sleepover, one of them “walked slowly and used the assistance of her mother for balance, her eyelids were heavy, and she spoke slowly.”
The girls told police that Meyden had been “very involved with their activities during the sleepover, ” that night and made them smoothies that had “tiny white chunks throughout and sprinkled on top,” the affidavit said.
“Mr. Meyden was adamant that the girls drink out of their own cups,” detectives said.
One of the girls told police she didn’t like the smoothie, but Meyden allegedly insisted she drink it and made her a second one to try.
Police also alleged that after the girls went to bed in the home’s basement, Meyden visited them throughout the night to check if they were awake by waving his hands or putting his finger under their noses.
One girl recounted that Meyden moved her…
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