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.”
If I slipped benzos to someone at a bar, what do you think the charges would be?
The fact of the matter is, in a situation like this you can’t get closer to attempted rape without a literal attempt.
Assault. What do you think the charges would be?
“The fact[you’re using this word incorrectly] is, you can’t get closer to attempted rape without a literal attempt”.
You obviously could get much, much closer to attempted rape.
Separation of victims. Hiding their clothes. No phones, locked doors, invitations, solicitations, there are uncountable horrific ways to get closer to a rape attempt.
Downplaying his actual crime is the main problem with you crying wolf. This was a horrible, irresponsible and creepy thing for this guy to do, and because you’re pretending something else happened that there is no evidence or testimony for, you’re trivializing what he actually did in order to fearmonger about what he could have done.
If someone kicks you in the street and you accuse them of murder, all you’re doing is minimizing their actual crime to get more attention for yourself.