In an age of ‘alternative facts,’ a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax

The following article by Barbara Demick was posted on the L.A. Times website February 3, 2017:

Noah Pozner, the youngest child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Some people contend he wasn’t killed, or claim he never existed, and are tormenting his parents. (Courtesy of Pozner family)

If there is anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss.

That is what happened to the family of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old with tousled brown hair and lollipop-red lips, the youngest of the 26 children and staff members gunned down in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The massacre that shook the country and opened new anxiety over gun violence, the family has received hate-filled calls and violent emails from people who say they know the shooting was a hoax. Photos of their son — some with pornographic and anti-Semitic content — have been distributed on websites. Continue reading “In an age of ‘alternative facts,’ a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax”