Mom put fentanyl pills in backseat, then toddler overdosed twice, OR officials say
An Oregon mom accused of leaving fentanyl pills within reach of her 2-year-old was convicted in connection with the child’s overdose, prosecutors said.
Megan Elizabeth Meek was found guilty of second-degree assault, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office said in a May 5 news release.
She’s scheduled to be sentenced in August.
McClatchy News reached out to her attorneys May 6 and was awaiting responses.
In 2023, Meek and her fiance smoked fentanyl while their daughter was with them, prosecutors said.
“Later that day, they planned to take the child to a babysitter so they could go shopping. They stopped at an area business along the way,” according to prosecutors, who said Meek went inside to buy something and then “put her bag containing multiple fentanyl pills and other drug paraphernalia in the backseat” when she got back to the vehicle.
The 2-year-old swallowed several pills, prosecutors said.
Meek and her fiance saw that the toddler was overdosing when they got to their destination, and they told responding police that the child had swallowed fentanyl, prosecutors said.
When police arrived, “the child was unconscious, not breathing, and had no detectable pulse,” authorities said.
Officers gave the girl two Narcan doses, “but she overdosed again once she reached the hospital due to the sheer amount of fentanyl in her system,” according to prosecutors, who said she had to be on a Narcan drip for an entire day.
Meek’s fiance, Bret Mitchell Hollmann, was sentenced in 2024 to four years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and unlawful possession of a schedule II controlled substance – substantial quantities, prosecutors said.
He said he purchased the fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Washington County includes Beaverton, which is about an 8-mile drive southwest from Portland.
This story was originally published May 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM with the headline "Mom put fentanyl pills in backseat, then toddler overdosed twice, OR officials say."
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