The parent of a child killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting won a defamation suit against an author that claimed the massacre was faked.
A Wisconsin judge ruled in favor of Lenny Pozner, the father of a 6-year-old boy killed at Sandy Hook in 2012, on Monday, according to the Associated Press. The damages are to be paid by “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook” authors James Fetzer and Mike Palacek.
Fetzer and Palacek alleged that Pozner’s son’s death and his death certificate were both faked.
“If Mr. Fetzer wants to believe that Sandy Hook never happened and that we are all crisis actors, even that my son never existed, he has the right to be wrong. But he doesn’t have the right to broadcast those beliefs if they defame me or harass me,” Pozner said. “He doesn’t have the right to use my baby’s image or our name as a marketing ploy to raise donations or sell his products. He doesn’t have the right to convince others to hunt my family.”
The case is separate from another lawsuit against the book’s publisher, Dave Gahary of Moon Rock Books.
“My face-to-face interactions with Mr. Pozner have led me to believe that Mr. Pozner is telling the truth about the death of his son,” Gahary said. “I extend my most heartfelt and sincere apology to the Pozner family.”
Pozner and several other family members of victims of Sandy Hook are engaged in other lawsuits against conspiracy theorists alleging that crisis actors faked the shooting, which resulted in 27 people killed, to push an agenda.
One of the targets of litigation is conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his internet platform InfoWars.
