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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS(15) went to a sleepover Saturday night and was given melatonin gummies as a prank by his “friends”.

It was about 14 boys camping in one of the boys backyard.  They were watching movies on an outdoor screen and eating snacks.  One of the boys fixed DS a plate of various snacks that included fruit snacks with melatonin gummies mixed in.

We don’t know exactly how much he ate but probably potentially as many as 15.  He said towards the end of the movie he started feeling very drowsy and dizzy and ended up falling asleep.  This was probably around 10:45pm.  He woke up around 1:30am feeling sick and ended up vomiting, felt better and continued to sleep.   He assumed he ate too much junk.

He said he had a very hard time waking up and when he did the other boys were laughing and asking “sleep well?”  “We’re you tired last night?” and they had also written on his face and hidden a lot of his items.

One of the boys ended up disclosing that they had given him (and only him) melatonin gummies last night.  Then apparently all the other boys laughed and said it was a prank.

DS texted me to pick him up and I got him a round 11:00am and he was still super groggy.   I assumed they were up all night.  He then got nauseous again and I had to pull over the car for him to vomit.  I was slightly worried they had been drinking and when I asked he then he told me about the melatonin prank.  I was super concerned and we ended up going to urgent care after calling poison control.

They ran a few test and did bloodwork and everything came back normal (no drugs or alcohol in system).  They were not able to test for levels of melatonin in his blood at this urgent care center.

He got some Zofran, fluids and napped while being observed and he is now totally fine.

He is begging me not to confront the parents but I find this behavior very very concerning.

All these boys are on the same soccer team but DS is the odd man out and has been picked on by a few of the boys before.  I’m not sure if every single boy was involved or not, but they all seemed to at least be aware from what DS told me.

I 100% believe DS as be does not lie.  He’s a great kid but has some issues socializing and so often becomes the target of his peers.

What if they had given him something else?  Something riskier than Melatonin gummies?   What are these boys going to do in 3 years in college?  They have time to mature and understand what they did was wrong but I believe their parents should know.

DS says this will make things much worse for him, which I also understand.

Thoughts? [/quote]

Terrible that you have to deal with that situation. As a parent, my immediate reaction would be to call the police and press charges.  Drugging someone is not a prank, it’s a crime.  That said, escalating the situation in that way will almost certainly have significant blowback for your DS, and the kids who were involved are just going to lie and cover for each other, so the sad truth is that nothing productive would come from that course of action.  So maybe the rational thing to do is to suck it up, let it go, and keep your DS the hell away from this crowd.  Not fair but perhaps the smart play. You might also reach out to the parent who hosted the sleep over to let them know what happened—my view is that as host I’m responsible for what happens on my property and I’d be super pissed too—but you might well be dealing with someone with very different values and just creating more problems.  FWIW, the kids probably didn’t intend real harm, it’s just irresponsible stupid teen bs. Bottom line:  you might just have to let this go as a matter of prudence.  Sucks but stuff happens.  If it were me given this set of factors I’d be sorely tempted to engage in some off-the-books retaliation, but that’s likely not very practical here either.[/quote]

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