A young girl urgently requested her mother to pick her up from a friend’s house after being drugged by the friend’s father during a sleepover. Michael Meyden secretly added a prescription sedative to mango smoothies he prepared for his 12-year-old daughter and her friends.
The 58-year-old father later confessed to spiking the smoothies with Temazepam, a sleep medication. Despite the coercion to drink the laced smoothie, one of the children refrained from consuming it and continuously reached out to her parents and family friends for help.
Frantically texting her mother around 2 a.m., the girl pleaded, “Mom please pick me up and say had a family emergency.” After being rescued by a family friend and taken home, the girl’s parents retrieved the other two friends and rushed them to the hospital.
Both girls tested positive for benzodiazepine, with one exhibiting symptoms of drowsiness, heat, and clumsiness before falling into a deep slumber after drinking the spiked smoothie. One of the victims recounted hearing Meyden entering the basement where they were sleeping and moving a child on the bed.
During Meyden’s sentencing, one victim described the ordeal as a living nightmare caused by his actions, labeling him a monster. Another victim condemned Meyden as a despicable individual. Records from Clackamas County court revealed a settlement reached between Meyden and his ex-wife in a civil lawsuit initiated by one victim’s father, though the settlement amount remains undisclosed.
The lawsuit, filed in November 2024, sought $2.4 million for emotional distress, negligence, and battery claims. Meyden had previously pleaded guilty to felony charges related to drugging individuals. In June 2024, he was sentenced to two years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Ann Lininger.