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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.”

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Why benzos? I feel like he would have not raised suspicion or gotten in the same trouble if he’d just let the girls eat some melatonin gummies or something. Wouldn’t even need to be sketchy about it.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago

So “drug them”, just not as hard?

C’mon man, these are kids. They’re not even all his kids. It’s a sleepover. They stay up late or even to the wee hours of the morning and make noise, watch movies, whatever. That’s what you do as a kid on a sleepover. Giving them any substance to try to make them sleep is a ridiculous idea on multiple levels.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Read the entire events. I don’t believe it was about sleep.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

If it was just about sleep he wouldn't be facing any serious time. This was attempted rape.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Could you point out where it says that? I’m not trying to defend this guy in any way shape or form, but I’m not into hysteria and making things up, either. Even the most sensational report only offered the opinion that you don’t touch kids unless you have bad intent. And that’s an opinion, not a statement of the perp’s actual intent. Dude f’d up bad, but it doesn’t mean he’s instantly a molester.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's literally in the article. One of the girls talked about him separating them and checking how out they were. It didn't elevate to actual rape because they got help.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Melatonin gummies? Those count as "drugs"? I thought they were considered supplements like vitamins and stuff.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You can’t give people unexpected things in their food. I think in your hypothetical case intent is the issue. The intent is to give a substance to a person in order to have an effect on that person who is unaware of it, and if that person can claim harm, you’re in deep shit.

It’s no different than putting a natural laxative or 6 million scoville hot sauce in your lunch trying to trap an office lunch thief. None of them are drugs, and in that (hypothetical) situation one would think the bastard deserves it, but legally you’d lose if they reported harm from it because you knew it was possibly going to be stolen and the intent was to have negative effect on the thief. The only grey area would be if you said you like the food spicy, but two edged sword - the judge could make you eat it to prove it.

Anyway, off on a tangent, there. Point is if you adulterate food with the intent to have an effect on someone unaware of the change to the food chances are you’re toast if they say it harmed them. In the article the guy did it to kids, kids that weren’t his, and that’s fucked up.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck those comments man... I have a daughter and she is fond of sleepovers... if I ever get a text from her asking for help, I would show up in that house like the Kool-aid man from hell

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

He didn't have any rufies.

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