Dad hit with lawsuit for giving sedative-laced mango smoothies to daughter's friends at sleepover

A begetter jailed for spiking his daughter's friends' effect smoothies with sedatives during a sleepover is being sued for $2.4 million.

Michael Meyden, 57, pleaded blameworthy to three counts of causing different idiosyncratic to ingest a controlled substance, a felony, and is serving 2 years successful prison.

He admitted to mixing Temazepam into the smoothies and serving them to the girls, who were 12 astatine the time, astatine his location in Lake Oswego, Oregon, past August.

Meyden past prowled astir the location to spot if the sedatives were working, arsenic helium wanted the 4 girls to spell to bed.

Two of the girls drank the smoothies and passed retired portion a 3rd lone took a fewer sips and frantically texted her parents about Meyden's crepy behavior.

'Mom delight prime maine up and accidental I had a household emergency,' I don't consciousness safe,' she wrote arsenic Meyden returned upstairs briefly. 

'I mightiness not respond but delight travel get me. Please. Please prime up. Please. PLEASE!!'

All 3 of the daughter's friends were taken to Randall Children’s Hospital astatine Legacy Emanuel successful Portland the greeting aft wherever they tested affirmative to benzodiazepines.

The 3rd girl's father, Scott Horsfield, is suing Meyden and his ex-wife Yukiko Ishida-Meyer, who divorced him past October aft helium was charged.

The suit filed in Clackamas County Circuit Court claims battery and intentional and negligent infliction of affectional distress.

The erstwhile cpouple are accused of failing to support a kid successful their location and to decently store the medicine medication.

Yukiko was not criminally charged implicit what her hubby did astatine the sleepover, and kicked him retired of the $1.3 cardinal home. He was surviving successful an RV successful a trailer parkland earlier helium went to prison.

Meyden’s present deleted LinkedIn illustration identified him arsenic an Arizona State University postgraduate who worked for vigor institution Avangrid.

The 3 girls had joined Meyden's girl for the 'spa night' sleepover astatine his location connected August 26 past year.

Meyden was 'highly involved' successful the lawsuit taking them retired to get their nails done and picking up pizza for their dinner, according to tribunal documents.

Before going to bed, Meyden  made them 2 smoothies each and 'insisted' they portion them.

'Mr Meyden specifically gave each of the girls circumstantial colored reusable straws to separate their ain drink,' the documents explained.

'Mr Meyden was adamant that the girls portion retired of their ain cups.'

One of the girls said the drinks appeared to person 'tiny achromatic chunks;' successful them and  Meyden's ain girl appeared to person drunk a important amount.

The girls past retired to the basement wherever 2 slept successful a chamber and the others connected a pull-out couch.

The lone undrugged miss stayed awake and saw Meyden travel into the basement and propulsion the heavy drugged miss distant from her.

When helium disappeared upstairs, the miss pulled her unconscious person backmost adjacent to her lone to find Meyden instrumentality and propulsion her distant again.

'He enactment his digit underneath the chemoreceptor of the awake miss 'as if to spot if she was soundly asleep, helium past waved his manus successful beforehand of her face,' she told police.

As Meyden retreated, she began calling and texting her parents and was yet capable to scope a household friend, who picked her up and took her to her home.

As connection dispersed the parents of the different 2 girls arrived to retrieve their daughters astatine 3am, but Meyden was reluctant to fto them in, telling them their children were asleep.

The miss who drank 2 smoothies told constabulary she began to consciousness woozy, blistery and clumsy, soon aft finishing the second.

She past 'blacked out' and fell into a 'thick, heavy sleep' dissimilar immoderate she had antecedently known.

Meyden is serving his sentnece astatine Columbia River Correctional Institution successful Northeast Portland and is not eligible for parole until January 2026.