Father Of Jewish Sandy Hook Victim Awarded $450,000 In Defamation Suit

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Noah Pozner, 6, was among the 20 child victims of the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that also claimed six adults. (Courtesy of the Pozner family, via Forward)

NEWTOWN, CT (JTA) — The father of a Jewish boy killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School won a $450,000 judgment against the editor of a book that claimed the 2012 massacre at the school never happened.

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A jury in Wisconsin determined the amount to be paid to Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was the youngest of the 26 people killed at the Connecticut school.

The award came four months after a judge ruled that Pozner had been defamed by James Fetzer and Mike Palecek, editors of a book claiming that the government had staged the killing to advance gun control measures. According to the book, Pozner had faked his son’s death certificate to advance the conspiracy.

Fetzer, a retired professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, called the judgment “absurd” and said he plans to appeal, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Palacek has already settled with Pozner for an undisclosed amount, according to The New York Times.

Pozner is a party to multiple lawsuits against those who claim the massacre was faked, including Alex Jones, the online provocateur who runs Infowars. Jones has also made claims to the effect that the parents of Sandy Hook victims are part of a plot to take away firearms.


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Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

Hit those lying momzarim in the pocket where it hurts; it was bad enough that the parents suffered such horrible loses. However, to be dragged through the mud, with vicious lying allegations, by those pieces of garbage, is just too much!

anonymous
anonymous
4 years ago

Yes it is a tragedy beyond imagination and the parents’ pain is forever

Gunther Wilderman
Gunther Wilderman
4 years ago

Sandy Hook is precisely as Fetzer says it is. The drag is this comment will most likely be deleted or never get posted. I have photographic evidence approx. 12 of the girls supposedly murdered are well into their teens and are college age.

Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

Hey, Gunther, we heard the same idiotic conspiracy garbage that JFK was never killed, and that Oswald was framed, and was innocent; also, that Sirhan Sirhan didn’t kill RFK. Do you really think that the public is that stupid to buy the horse manure that you are peddling?