Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $100,000 in legal costs and fees to the father of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.
Texas District Judge Scott Jenkins issued the ruling Dec. 20 after the InfoWars conspiracy monger and his defense team “intentionally disregarded” an earlier order to provide witnesses and other materials to the plaintiff.
Dad Neil Heslin is suing Jones and his website arguing they spread “defamatory lies” about his son, Jesse Lewis, and the other 19 children and six adults massacred in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
He claims that InfoWars posted an article about him, questioning comments he made about holding his boy and observing the bullet wound in his head.
The judge has denied Jones’ request to dismiss the lawsuit.
Jones, who operates InfoWars from Texas, is also being sued in Connecticut by other families of Sandy Hook victims for pushing the theory that the mass shooting was a hoax.
He has since acknowledged that the killings did occur. His attorneys have argued that his speech constitutes “rhetorical hyperbole” and isn’t defamatory.
Lenny Pozner — whose 6-year-old son, Noah, was killed in the shooting — is also suing Jones for defamation. In June, he was awarded $450,000 against the authors of the book “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook,” which claimed the shooting never happened and that Pozner had faked copies of his son’s death certificate.
With Post wires