and i don t intend to. i mean, the only thing that i hope to do is let as many people know as possible that no matter how hard you re you try to be safe and no matter how hard you think you or how well you think you have it under control somebody s going to get hurt or even die. these chemicals are so dangerous that all it takes is for someone to just have some of it and not know what they have. yet you did think that you thought you were smart enough to handle it and smart enough to think that your customers knew what the hell they were doing. that s right. he is the 15th person so far to be prosecuted under the north dakota federal drug case now called operation stolen youth that began with the deaths of christian bjerk and elijah stai. andrew spofford, who bought the
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these drugs are so potent a dose the size a few grains of salt is enough to get high. north dakota s top federal drug prosecutor had never heard of them, and neither had christian bjerk s parents. i had to go to the internet and look up information on it. and i really didn t understand the whole synthetic drug. i didn t know what it was. i didn t know how dangerous they were. the message we got after we went on the internet was that somebody had said it was okay for these drugs to be on the street and they had been tweaked. but that s all we knew. synthetic lsd has been blamed for at least parents across the country are now learning the painful truth about synthetic designer drugs. investigators say he overdosed on a synthetic marijuana otherwise known as k-2. with deaths and overdoses reported almost daily. poisoned a 15-year-old girl.
cameras are not allowed inside federal court. charles carlton, his wife, quietly crying one behind him, is sentenced to 20 years in prison. outside court, the bjorks leave for the last time. their sentence is for life. it s never going to be done. christian was he was a child. he s our flesh and blood. he s someone that was so important to us that we would have given our lives for him. and, you know, our job now is just to get the word out there to the rest of the people, so that no other families have to go through this kind of thing and to honor our son, to honor his memory. all the kids and young adults sitting in here today, please tell them this story. since their son, christian s death, the bjorks have become activists, getting out the word on the dangers of sympathetic
andrew spofford, who bought the drugs online from charles carlton. adam budge, who got the drugs from spofford. the teen who bought the drugs from budge and shared them with christian bjerk, and several low-level dealers are all behind bars. fans, let s hear it one more time for all our 2011 senior athletes and trainers. i know exactly what he was saying to me. he was actually telling me he was hungry and he wanted to eat right after the game. he was going to go out with some friends and get a sandwich. and at the hearings and sentencings debbie bjerk has been there to speak about her son christian and to play this video. it put a human being behind the name. it s one thing to read a name on a sheet of paper that, you know, this person died. it s another thing to see actual footage of them, you know, talking, walking, being with their family.