Six-year-old Noah Pozner was shot and killed on Dec. 14, 2012, one of 20 children and six adults murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Those are the facts.
But conspiracy theorists have long pushed the idea that the shootings were a hoax, part of a government plot to impose gun control. Some have gone out of their way to harass and troll the parents of Sandy Hook’s youngest victims online, accusing them of staging the massacre or demanding documentation of their children’s deaths.
Federal prosecutors say Lucy Richards went a step too far.
Richards, a 57-year-old former waitress who gets around on a walker and lives off government assistance in the Tampa suburb of Brandon, is accused of sending death threats in January to Lenny Pozner, Noah’s father when he was living in Palm Beach County. Pozner asked that The Post not identify the location of his current home for security reasons.
“I get threats all the time, people saying they want to harm me,” Pozner said.
Richards is among them, prosecutors testified during her arraignment Monday in U.S. District Court. They said Richards sent four messages to Pozner on a single day, all with a similar theme.
“You gonna die, death is coming to you real soon,” read one of the messages.
Pozner said he hopes the prosecution of Richards, who is free on $25,000 bond while facing four felony counts of transmitting threats, will give other so-called “truthers” pause.
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