Sandy Hook father awarded $450,000 after suing conspiracy theorist

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian and agencies

Sandy Hook father awarded $450,000 after suing conspiracy theorist

Father of boy killed in Newtown school shooting sued James Fetzer and Mike Palacek over their book Nobody Died at Sandy Hook

Edward Helmore in New York and agencies
Wed 16 Oct 2019 15.23 BST
Last modified on Wed 16 Oct 2019 18.55 BST

The father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting has been awarded $450,000 by a jury in Wisconsin after he sued a conspiracy theorist who claimed the massacre never happened.

Leonard Pozner, whose six-year-old son Noah was among the 26 victims at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, sued James Fetzer and co-author Mike Palacek over their book Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, which claimed Noah’s death certificate is fake and Pozner lied about his son being dead.

While Palacek reached an undisclosed settlement with Pozner last month, the defamation suit proceeded against Fetzer. In court, Pozner, a retired Minnesota professor, claimed the statements and the harassment he had received because of the book had given him post-traumatic stress disorder.

Among them were death threats he received from Lucy Richards, a member of a group that believes Sandy Hook is a hoax used to push support for gun control.

In a separate case in 2017, Richards admitted to sending Pozner a threatening message that read, “LOOK BEHIND YOU IT IS DEATH.” She was sentenced to five months in prison followed by three years on supervised release.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/16/sandy-hook-father-awarded-450000-after-suing-conspiracy-theorist

[blueinredohio]

1. He also should have been awarded every dime they make from this book

[captain queeg]

2. How is this stuff even possible?

How can anyone be so stupid as to deny an event like Sandy Hook? It was a huge event, well reported throughout the US. If you were going to write a book like that wouldn’t you make a trip back there? Wouldn’t there be plenty of evidence? Was the book published as fiction or non fiction?

It’s not like the moon landing, where one might claim lack of concrete evidence and some motivation for the event to be faked. It’s really scary to me to see how delusional people can be. And I’d venture that the highest number of people like this are firmly in the Trump camp.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Although to believe the Moon Landing was faked

means you need to believe that many thousands of people were in on it, and not a single one ever blew the whistle in the years since.

AND, you have to believe that the subsequent landings were faked also, again involving thousands of people.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Good deal