A judge threw out an attempt by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, HuffPost reported Thursday.
Judge Scott Jenkins of the 53rd District Court in Texas ruled that Jones’s Infowars must face the defamation lawsuit brought about by Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa.
Pozner and De La Rosa’s 6-year-old son, Noah, was one of 20 children and six adults killed by a gunman inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
{mosads} Court documents show that they say Jones has continually repeated false claims that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged and that the parents were involved in a cover-up.
He has called Sandy Hook families “crisis actors” and accused De La Rosa of faking an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, HuffPost reported.
“I’ve watched a lot of soap operas, and I’ve seen actors before,” Jones said in 2016. “And I know when I’m watching a movie and when I’m watching something real.”
Pozner and De La Rosa say they have received death threats ever since Jones called the shooting a hoax.
