David Stephan resumes promoting supplements
PRINCE GEORGE – A father convicted of withholding the necessaries of life in his son’s death is touring British Columbia, to promote his family’s supplement business, even as the appeal process continues.
Speaking at an event Tuesday, Jan. 10 in Prince George, David Stephan insisted that he and his wife Collet did not get a fair portrayal of their 2016 trial in Lethbridge in the media, and said it’s something he considered seriously before resuming his speaking events. Stephan was promoting a supplement aimed at treatment of mental health issues.
“There’s always a lot of adversity, especially after going through a tragic situation like we went through and having it misrepresented in the media, a lot of facts omitted and whatnot, that would generate bias towards us, against us, type of thing. And so it’s always a concern,” Stephan said. “Even though there may be some controversy surrounding it, which we weren’t anticipating at this level — there seems to be a concerted effort to generate this issue from outside of Prince George — I decided to move forward with it anyways, just so I could share a message of hope with people.”
Stephan said contrary to media portrayals, he and his wife are not anti-mainstream medicine.