Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families

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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families

Nikki McCann Ramirez

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Alex Jones Mocks Jury Ordering Him to Pay $1 Billion to Sandy Hook Families

The conspiracy theorist is not mad, he's laughing, actually, about the hundreds of millions of dollars he now owes families of the victims of the 2012 massacre

Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on Sept. 21, 2022 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images

A jury has found InfoWars founder Alex Jones liable for $965 million worth of damages in a defamation suit brought by the family members of eight victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.

The verdict, delivered on Wednesday, comes after Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to families in a separate case in August. He now owes families of the victims over $1 billion.

Robbie Parker, whose six-year-old daughter was killed in the shooting, received $120 million alone for defamation and emotional distress.

 

Jones did not take the verdict seriously, mocking the damages on InfoWars. “Do these people actually think they’re getting any of this money?” he asked.

As the jury reads the damages and the Sandy Hook parents weep, Alex Jones is on his broadcast, laughing and assuring his audience that he won't actually be paying any of this money.

"Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?" pic.twitter.com/k9brmHaBWC

— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) October 12, 2022

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, in which 20 children and 6 administrators were killed, Jones claimed the shooting was a “hoax” and that the murdered children and their families were “crisis actors.” In both of the trials against Jones, family members and law enforcement officials have testified to the barrage of harassment they experienced at the hands of InfoWars viewers. Jackie Barden, whose son Daniel was killed in the shooting, testified in Connecticut about receiving letters from people claiming to have urinated on her son’s grave and threatening to dig up his body.

Barden was awarded $28.8 million on Wednesday. Mark Barden was awarded $57.6 million. 

Another victim’s mother, Nicole Hockley, described being sent death threats and photos of dead children, and how the resulting stress led her to sleep with a knife and baseball bat near her bed for fear of an attack.

Hockley was awarded $73.6 million on Wednesday. Ian Hockely was awarded $81.6 million.

Robbie and Alissa Parker recalled how Jones held a broadcast the day of their daughter’s funeral, accusing them of “staging it” and of reading cue cards at a press conference several days before.

Jones was combative throughout the trial, forcing the removal of the jury from the courtroom several times and claiming the trial to be little more than “a deep state” situation. “Is this a struggle session?” he exclaimed late last month. “Are we in China? I’ve already said I’m sorry, and I’m done saying I’m sorry.”

The conspiracy theorist’s disparagement of the proceedings

 

it could not happen to a more deserving guy. getting rich of of peoples pain and sorrow makes me sick. lock him up!