The parents of one of the 20 children slain in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., took the witness stand in the defamation trial against Alex Jones in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, telling the jury that the Infowars founder was the primary catalyst for spreading the false claim that the 2012 massacre was fake.
Scarlett Lewis, left, and Neil Heslin, right, the parents of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, rise once Judge Maya Guerra Gamble begins the third day of trial Thursday, July 28, 2022, at the Travis County Courthouse. The parents are seeking two awards of $150 million from Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in court. Jones has been found to have defamed the parents of a Sandy Hook student for calling the attack a hoax.
Scarlett Lewis, Jesse’s mother, recalled seeing a photo circulating of Sandy Hook’s choir, which had been invited to perform at the Super Bowl, a few weeks after the killings. The image had the names of Jesse and other children who died at Sandy Hook superimposed over the choir members. Their lawyer said Monday that the parents have gone into isolation with an around-the-clock security detail following an unspecified number of “encounters” while they've been in Texas for the two-week trial.
They each said Jesse's death was traumatic enough, but the denials and harassment spurred on by Jones and like-minded conspiracy theorists has been too much to bear. "You try to process the death of a child, and we've tried to do that," she said."But you can't process this." Roy Lubit, a psychiatrist hired by the plaintiffs, testified Monday that Jesse’s parents both suffer from a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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