Alex Jones of InforWars being sued by Sandy Hook parents

Many people take Alex Jones seriously. That's probably due to the notion that he says things that conspiracy theorists want to believe, so they do. Sometimes Jones makes claims that are so far out over his skis that he needs to be held accountable.

The families of two kids who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre filed suit against Infowars head for his claim that the Connecticut shooting never happened.

The whole thing was a hoax, he claimed.

Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, the parents of Noah Pozner, and Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse Lewis, filed separate defamation lawsuits Monday against Jones seeking over $1 million in damages.

The suits were filed in Travis County, Texas, the home of InfoWars, Jones' media company.

Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, called Jones' accusations "goulish."

Jesse Lewis

"Even after these folks had to experience this trauma, for the accusations next five years they were tormented by Alex Jones with vicious lies about them," Bankston told the Huffington Post. "And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people."

Six teachers and 20 first-grade students were gunned down on December 14, 2012 by the gunman, a mentally ill young man who first shot and killed his mother and took her legally-owned guns to continue the slaughter before killing himself.

Noah Pozner

The lawsuits allege that Jones insisted the shooting was staged and this resulted in the encouragement of other crazy people to make death threats against the victims' families.

"So, if children were lost at Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents. And the people who say they're parents that I see on the news. The only problem is, I've watched a lot of soap operas. And I've seen actors before [he's one of them]. And I know when I'm watching a movie and when I'm watching something real," Jones said at the time.

Jones and InfoWars did not comment on the lawsuit.

There's a difference between freedom of speech and defamation.


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