A Texas judge has reportedly ordered Alex Jones and Infowars to pay over $100,000 in legal fees in a defamation suit brought by the father of a six-year-old victim of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Jones is being sued by Neil Heslin, whose son Jesse Lewis was killed in the mass shooting along with 19 other first-graders and six adults, for referring to parents of the victims as “crisis actors” and insisting that the massacre was a hoax. On Dec. 20, Judge Scott Jenkins ordered the Infowars founder and his company to pay $65,825 for ignoring a court order about providing documents and witnesses. He also denied Infowars’ motion to dismiss the case and ordered Jones and the site to pay an additional $34,323.80, bringing the total to $100,148.80.
“Mr. Jones is learning there are severe consequences to his refusal to take these lawsuits seriously,” Heslin’s attorney Mark Bankston told the Hartford Courant.
Jones and Infowars were also ordered to pay $25,875 back in October for failing to comply with another ruling. A jury trial for the case is expected to be scheduled before the end of this year.
Jones is also facing two other separate lawsuits about his Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, one brought by Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah Pozner was killed in the shooting, and another filed in Connecticut by a group of Sandy Hook families.
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