Creepy new details emerge in nightmare sleepover where dad allegedly served drug-laced mango smoothies to 12-year-old girls
One of the 12-year-old girls allegedly fed drug-laced mango smoothies by a friend’s father during a sleepover claims the creepy Oregon dad was “doing tests” to see if they were conscious while they…
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Creepy new details emerge in nightmare sleepover where dad allegedly served drug-laced mango smoothies to 12-year-old girls
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Published March 4, 2024, 4:40 p.m. ET
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One of the 12-year-old girls allegedly fed drug-laced mango smoothies by a friend’s father during a sleepover claims the creepy Oregon dad was “doing tests” to see if they were conscious while they pretended to sleep.
The child desperately texted a family friend begging for a ride from the Lake Owego home, saying her friend’s 57-year-old dad was making her feel unsafe after he had coerced her and two other girls into drinking the smoothies he had laced with benzodiazepine — a depressant that slows the nervous system, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Post.
“So I’m ‘sleeping,’ and her dad comes down and [I’m] hugging [one of the other girls] because she was scared, and he kept moving us away from each other but kept doing tests to make sure we weren’t awake,” the unidentified girl wrote in a text.
Oregon father Michael Meyden, 57, allegedly served drug-laced smoothies to 12-year-old girls at his daughter’s sleepover.Linkedin/Mike Meyden
3“Also, [the other girl] won’t wake up and she did for like 2 seconds, but she kept her eyes closed and didn’t talk,” the girl added before the family friend agreed to pick her up.
When the family friend arrived at the home, the girl stood to get her things and was met by creepy dad Michael Meyden, who “seemed drunk” and slurred his speech in response to her leaving but did not try to stop her, the girl said.
Meyden turned himself in at the Clackamas County Jail on Wednesday after a grand jury issued an indictment accusing him of multiple felonies and misdemeanors stemming from the Aug. 26 sleepover from hell.
The girl also told police that she had used a “very loud door” to retrieve her shoes from the garage while fleeing and became “concerned” when one of the other girls didn’t wake up when she slammed the door.
One of the girls at the sleepover claimed Meyden did “tests” on them to see if they were conscious while they pretended to sleep.Pinterest/Yukiko Ishida
3After the girl was brought home by the family friend, she woke her parents, who decided to drive to Meyden’s house at 3 a.m. to retrieve the two other girls, the document says.
At the hospital the next day, one of the girls told Lake Oswego Police Detective Nicole Palmeri she still felt hot, woozy and clumsy, while another child said she couldn’t recall what occurred upon “blacking out.”
One of the three girls, whose mother said she is typically a light sleeper, described falling into a “thick, deep sleep” that she had never experienced before.
The same girl was unable to walk upon getting home and had to be carried inside the house, where she repeatedly asked, “What happened” before her parents decided to bring her to the hospital.
Police observed that one of the girls “walked slowly and used the assistance of her mother for balance, her eyelids were heavy, and she spoke slowly.”
None of the girls or their families were particularly close with the Meyden family or had been at their home before the sleepover, which Meyden had arranged because his then-wife’s primary language is Japanese, the affidavit said.
Meyden pleaded not guilty to charges at Clackamas County Circuit Court.Google Maps
3Police have not speculated on a motive.
Meyden faces charges including causing another person to ingest a controlled substance and application of a controlled substance to the body of another person.
Court records show Meyden and his wife divorced late last year but owned a home in Lake Oswego at the time of the sleepover.
Meyden pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday in Clackamas County Circuit Court, and his bail was set at $50,000.
Bury him inside the walls of the jail like the Garden on The Originals.
