Conspiracy theorist ordered to pay father of Sandy Hook shooting victim $US450,000

A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $US450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorists who claimed the massacre never happened.Leonard Pozner has been subjected to death threats by hoaxers who claim he is an actor and his son never existed

Retired professor James Fetzer claimed in a book that Mr Pozner fabricated copies of his son's birth certificateAuthor James Fetzer was ordered to pay the amount to Leonard Pozner, whosewas among the 26 victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Fetzer, a retired University of Minnesota Duluth professor now living in Wisconsin, and Mike Palacek co-wrote a book, Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, in which they claimed the shooting never took place but was instead an event staged by the US Government as part of an Obama administration effort to enact tighter gun restrictions.

A judge earlier ruled Mr Pozner was defamed by statements in the book that claimed he fabricated copies of his son's death certificate.Palacek settled with Mr Pozner last month, terms of which were not disclosed.

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