Alex Jones sued by another Sandy Hook parent
InfoWars host Alex Jones has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from his past statements questioning whether the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.
HuffPost reports that Jones was sued this week by Scarlett Lewis, the mother of a victim of the 2012 attack in Newtown, Conn., over videos he posted in which he claimed that the shooting was staged and that the victims' parents were involved in a cover-up.
Jones is already facing one defamation suit over the claims from the parents of two children killed in the massacre, which he unsuccessfully sought in August to have dismissed.
The newest suit claims that Lewis and others suffered harassment at the hands of Jones's supporters as a result of his false claims, which Lewis's lawyers argue Jones knew about.
“Mr. Jones and InfoWars were well-aware of the unhinged community of ’Sandy Hook Investigators’ they had fostered,” court filings read, according to HuffPost. “Mr. Jones knew that a large collection of Sandy Hook deniers were coordinating their harassment. Plaintiff and her family have suffered harassment and threats from this community.
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