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Any explanation for this is going to be horrible
Not that actually doing it isn’t absolutely horrible but wait till you have children, at about 7yo they invite 8 of their friends in your house and it’s pouring outside.
The idea of sedating them will eventually come in mind. Then obviously you’ll discard it.
And come the moment of cleaning the mess they inevitably leave you’ll wonder if you should have done it.
Yeah, there's a big difference between using melatonin as a "sedative" so they don't stay up all night and wreck the house, and using a powerful sedative to knock them out and abuse them.
Granted, I am NOT advocating using melatonin on other people's kids, especially without consent from the parents, but one of those scenarios is considerably more evil than the other.
This guy gave the kids adult anxiety meds in smoothies, that makes this particular scenario much worse than a misguided attempt to make them go to bed early.
The motive here appears to be much more sinister. If you haven't read the article in full...
Giving any psychoactive substance to anyone and especially kids without a specific prescription from a licensed practician is absolutely insane.
Beside recreational drugs when an adult wishes to obviously.
He could have just used melatonin if regular sleepiness was his goal.
In my view that’s not much better. Still not acceptable to medicate minors without parental approval and medical supervision. You never know for sure who’s allergic to what. Not your kid stay the fuck away.
Oh sure, don’t dose other people’s kids
Apparently, since the article didn't bring up any sort of sex crimes, he did not discard it.
Where did he get the Benzos from?
I'm not sure but it does sound fishy as fuck.
I don't disagree. But you'd think the article would be more explicit if he was suspected of sexually assaulting the girls.
The parents showed up before he could. Also, one of the girls wasn't affected as much and was able to run defense.
He was trying to sexually assault them. There's no question here.
He has something fishy in mind - that's for certain.
But how can you say "there's no question" about whether he wanted to sexually assault them?
Maybe he wanted to kill them or something.
They can't say for sure because, thank goodness, it didn't happen. But there are very few good explanations for heavily drugging children and attempting to physically move them.
Might just be written with context they were given and not insinuation. Which is good. But yeah. It seems he was trying to be a predator here from the context.
Some news places wouldn't want to assume and put it in writing since that might "taint a jury pool" of they read about it before trial. Or a libel suit if the news places was wrong in their assumption.
I believe that sexual assault/rape was 100% his goal, but I'm not a new organization.
One of the girls didn't have any smoothie. She said he came downstairs multiple times to check if they were asleep.
Sounds fishy.
Sounds to me like one girl not wanting smoothie saved all her friends.
The article doesn’t mention that either but I read often that benzos are really common in the states, so likely a prescription.
Did you read the article? It seems like predatory behavior... gross