Sandy Hook victims claim Alex Jones emails contain child porn, he says it was planted
A law firm representing relatives of the Sandy Hook shooting victims claims child porn images were found in the trove of emails handed over by the Infowars founder to the plaintiffs. Alex Jones says he was set up.
The motion, filed Monday by the plaintiffs, says that a consulting company hired to process metadata handed over by Jones found “An image that appeared to be child pornography.” The Infowars host is being sued over his comments by relatives of children and staff killed in the attack on the elementary school in 2012. The emails were requested by the court.
The consulting company alerted the FBI, which found more images. “The FBI advised counsel that its review located numerous additional illegal images, which had apparently been sent to Infowars email addresses,” the motion states.
The plaintiffs accuse Jones and his defense of failing to do “minimal due diligence” and comb through thousands of emails for potentially incriminating content like porn before dumping it on lawyers. Although that appears not to be the case, the plaintiffs point out that if the images “were knowingly possessed” by him, it would have been “a serious federal crime.”
