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Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist gets prison time for threatening victim’s family

A Florida woman who believed that the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school was a hoax was sentenced to five months in prison this week for threatening the father of six-year-old Noah Pozner, one of the 20 young victims who died in the shooting. US district judge James Cohn called Lucy Richards’ actions towards Leonard Pozner “disturbing” and condemned those who spread false claims about the deaths of 20 children and six adults in the attack in Newtown, Connecticut, five years ago. “This is reality and there is no fiction. There are no alternative facts,” Cohn told Richards, 57, at her sentencing. “You have the absolute right to think and believe as you so desire,” the judge said. “You do not have the right to transmit threats to another.” For Pozner, who has become an activist devoted to combatting the conspiracy theorists that target family members of victims, the sentencing is a “powerful outcome” that he hopes will raise awareness of the serious harm that hoaxers ca...
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Love Heals and Comforts: Message From Sandy Hook Elementary School

Inspiration from the Sandy Hook Tragedy We were like many around the world, glued to the television and the Internet in disbelief of the Sandy Hook shooting . I thought of the hundreds of small children I had toured over the years who come to visit the Los Angeles Zoo. Many are six and seven years old. It always amazes and delights me that at least one of them would slip their tiny hand in mine as we walk together on our way to see the animals. And, at the end of the tour when I tell them good-bye, it wouldn't be unusual for a few to give me a thankful hug. Me, a complete stranger. Their innocence reminds me they are pure spirits from God. I reflect back to my own grown children when they were that age as well. That's as far as I could let my mind travel. I couldn't even conceive in my imagination what I would have felt, or the parents of the touring children would have felt, if our kids met with the Sandy Hook tragedy . What I did allow my mind to think of, and was c...
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