Mr Jones has long claimed on his radio show and right-wing Infowars website that the attack at Sandy Hook was "completely fake" and a "giant hoax". He has faced a slew of legal cases from several parents of the victims.
In response, he has acknowledged the shooting took place but denied wronging the families. In Thursday's ruling, a Texas judge said Mr Jones had repeatedly failed to hand over legal documents and evidence to the court to support his claims about the attack.
As a result, a default judgement was issued. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble wrote that Mr Jones and other defendants had shown "flagrant bad faith and callous disregard" by not turning over the files. The ruling means he and Infowars must pay an undecided amount to the parents of Noah Pozner and Jesse Lewis, two six-year-old boys who died. She is also one of the founders of Safe and Sound Schools. Jack had a huge smile and a love for mischief. To honor his memory, his family has supported Kids in the Game , an organization that provides funds for athletic programs for kids and schools that could not otherwise afford them.
Noah loved playing deep imaginative games with his Legos and superhero toys. His twin sister, Arielle, survived the shooting. The Honr Network coordinates volunteers to monitor and take down hoaxer posts and videos. Working with tech companies like Google on this effort has been an uphill battle , one that has made Pozner himself the target of intense harassment.
A Florida woman was sentenced to five months in prison earlier this year for making threats against him. Before Christmas one year, she brought her piggy bank to her parents and asked to donate all of her savings to their church to make sure the every kid would have a present under their Christmas trees.
At her funeral, some mourners wore pink, her favorite color , to honor her, the New Haven Register reported. The Caroline Previdi Foundation provides support for kids without financial resources to engage in extracurricular activities. As well as horseback riding, Jessica spent hours watching the Free Willy movies and taking notes on orcas, her family wrote.
The Jessica Rekos Foundation supports horseback riding scholarships and research and internships on orca and whale conservation. She was often barefoot. Asked what she wanted to be, she replied that she would like to be an artist Ben was full of urgent questions that he wanted answered at once.
He demanded attention. Millions of Americans did, however, make it through the film that made a Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. A botched burglary attempt further clouds one of the earliest kidnap-for-ransom cases. After rounding up three other men to help him surprise the Although the League of Nations was more or Live TV. This Day In History.
History Vault. Vietnam War. Art, Literature, and Film History. I gotta play, too! Halbig was born in Germany in to a mother who wanted an abortion, until his Catholic grandmother offered to raise the baby instead. He met his mother for the first time when he was 12 — he never met his father — and she told him they were moving to Florida, where Halbig graduated from high school, he says, with a 1. His early years in America were largely marked by bullying.
But Halbig was a promising football player, and after going to junior college, and then the Air Force, he played linebacker at Abilene Christian University. In , Halbig was let go as the director of risk management for another school district, which he told the Orlando Sentinel was due to the fact that he had confronted district officials about mold problems.
The district said his contract had simply run out. Halbig had been the victim, he believed, of a conspiracy. He launched several school-safety consultancies, none of which survived; ran for county commissioner, winning 5. Two months after Sandy Hook, Halbig sent an email to an employee of the Newtown school district suggesting that the full story of the massacre had not been told and offering his services as a school-safety consultant to investigate.
The board, flooded with such emails, never responded, which Halbig took as an affront. Not long after he emailed Cox, Halbig says, two Florida police officers visited his home to relay a message from police in Connecticut that he risked being charged with harassment if he continued contacting people in Newtown. The incident made him a celebrity in the hoaxer world: Here was a real example, they believed, of the authorities trying to silence their investigation.
Alex Jones invited Halbig on his show to share his run-in with the police and to detail the 16 questions Halbig believed needed to be answered about Sandy Hook. Why did the parents of the two children who died at the Danbury hospital not allow their children to donate their organs to other children waiting for the gift of life?
Most of them had no personal connection to Newtown, and many, Pozner found, were recovering conspiracy theorists just like him. Moser kept her children out of school for a few days after the shooting and was looking for information about how the families were holding up when she stumbled upon the Sandy Hook Hoax group.
She started spending her free time investigating Sandy Hook. At one point, she helped Halbig scour Newtown Board of Education documents for evidence supporting a theory that the school had been closed before the shooting. Instead, she found evidence to the contrary, but when she brought this to Halbig, she says he dismissed her. In December, Moser left the group and began helping Pozner. She did not give up fringe theories entirely and believes that her son has autism because of a childhood vaccine.
Moser was disappointed that after she left, only one hoaxer approached her to ask what had changed her mind. Instead, they turned on her, accusing her of being a part of the conspiracy all along. Moser said they published her personal information, as they had done with several Sandy Hook families, and reported her to Child Protective Services.
One hoaxer obtained explicit footage Moser had shared with a former boyfriend and posted it online. The two girls happen to look alike if you pick the right photograph from the right angle.
If Rodriguez Googles her name — she is now 12 years old — she will be confronted with a page full of results declaring that she is actually her dead schoolmate. While conspiracy theorists thrive online, Pozner found most of them to be technologically unsophisticated, and his IT background gave him an advantage. Pozner found that his most effective tool for getting material taken down was to file copyright claims whenever anyone used a family photo of him, or Noah, in a post.
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