Child porn found in documents Alex Jones sent to lawyers of Sandy Hook families, court filing says

[Jose Garcia]

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Source: NBC News

Lawyers representing families of Sandy Hook massacre victims who are suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said they received child pornography in documents they were sent by the Infowars founder, according to court papers filed Monday in Connecticut.

Consultants working with the lawyers discovered the images in the documents that were requested during a court hearing in April, the filing states. A lawyer representing the families immediately alerted the FBI, according to the filing.

“The FBI advised counsel that its review located numerous additional illegal images, which had apparently been sent to Infowars email address,” the filing says.

During a segment on Infowars last week, Jones’ lawyer Norm Pattis said the FBI cleared Jones after an inquiry found “there was no suggestion that anyone here wanted that material, ever looked at it or even knew about it.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/child-porn-found-documents-alex-jones-sent-sandy-hook-family-n1018541

[CurtEastPoint]

1. nice touch, perv

[Blue Owl]

2. Color me absolutely not shocked

We've known for years this specimen was and is a sick fuck...

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. Me either

I always figured he was a sicko.

[Traildogbob]

3. OHHHH SHIIIIT

The damn is breaking. His ass may be done. That you God!!!! This may be like the Hindenburg coming down. 😵😵😱😱. Oh the humanity!!!

[rsdsharp]

32. Well in fairness, he's always been a flaming gas bag.

He’s may just now finally be crashing.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Explains his obsession with murdered children

He was getting off on it.
Literally.

[sop]

22. Best explanation yet.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Power, control, child sexual violence, stalking parents

Also explains his arrogance and smirking about all of it.

He loves getting away with his psychopathic behavior.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. But, but, "research"

Just looking for Hillary's pizza shop connection, yeronner.

[TeamProg]

6. Perv-ect !!

[moonshinegnomie]

8. old news,from june 2019

[Tetrachloride]

23. link for this?

[Effete Snob]

30. The link is in the OP

The article in the OP is dated:

"June 17, 2019, 7:38 PM EDT"

[Torchlight]

34. I guess that's why Jones did not respond to a request regarding this story for comment on Mon.

And why on Friday, during a shriller-than-normal segment of his show on Friday (7-29), Jones said he was offering a $1 million reward to anyone who could track down the person who tried “to set me up with child porn.”

Everything old is new again.

[tanyev]

9. Simultaneously shocking and yet not surprising.

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. FBI cleared Jones....ya but, the headline is out there...now what do you suppose Jones

Would do with a headline like that???...Nah,he wouldn't exploit it, or would he?

[C_U_L8R]

11. Just wait... there's more

His J6 sedition texts are very likely there too.

Every sender and receiver has gotta be freaking out.

[dalton99a]

12. Sure enough

[Orrex]

13. Where are all the KKKonservative fuckheads who howl about "groomers" now?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

27. Right?

We need a republiscum groomer-hypocrite scoreboard.

[TheRickles]

14. What's the explanation for why Jones' attorney "accidentally" sent the material to opposing counsel?

Seems like too massive a blunder to have been accidental, yet he hasn't been fired by Jones either. Not sure what to make of it.

[duckworth969]

20. Wondering the same

Can a mistrial be declared due to lawyer incompetence?

[duckworth969]

21. Wondering the same

Can a mistrial be declared due to lawyer incompetence?

[Midnight Writer]

15. In Jones' defense, he was probably just gathering child porn to put on Democrats' computers.

Maybe he was putting together another Hunter Biden hard drive for Guilliani.

[Frasier Balzov]

16. If guns and ammunition were treated like child porn

then I'd say this nation's laws were being a little bit more consistent.

[Scrivener7]

17. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[Aristus]

18. Now we know why those files were "accidentally" sent to the plaintiffs' lawyers.

Jones's own lawyers are disgusted with the perverted monster.

[Hamlette]

24. What is very odd is that when told of the "mistake" Alex's lawyer did not try to stop release

The lawyer could have claimed privilege and tried to claw back his "mistake". He could have gone to court to get an order preventing the release of the info. I'm a lawyer and while it is rare, it happens. Sometimes the lawyer could just request they not be released.

crickets.

I'm wondering if you are right.

Maybe the lawyer is no longer getting paid and dumping on Alex? Alex says he's bankrupt.

[Aristus]

29. I'm not a lawyer, so maybe I perceive these things differently.

But I seem to remember reading that these documents had been ordered by the judge to be turned over during discovery, and Jones's lawyer forgot, or refused, or something. Now he says they were sent "accidentally". The possibility that they were sent accidentally doesn't negate the judge's order for them to be turned over in the first place, does it?

[Hamlette]

19. if he did not open the messages, he will now know what it's like to be falsely accused of awful shit

like staging your child's murder.

(I'm not sure I believe he didn't look but giving him the benefit of the doubt he never gives anyone, I will forever see him as someone who views child porn. Ick.)

[Tetrachloride]

26. Darwin Award for lawyers ??

or was it deliberate as mentioned in another comment?

[BidenRocks]

28. I doubt that anyone here on DU,

who, even despite curiosity, would never even have this crap on their computer. History or what not.
Doesn't the FBI track child porn? Maybe if a Democrat did it.
This shit has to have a trail.

[AngryOldDem]

31. Not surprised.

Disgusting piece of shit.

He has made it so that these families have never had time to grieve and heal.

Fuck him.

[chowder66]

33. Maybe you should put in bold that he was cleared by the FBI and note the article is from 2019.

Not sure why so many here are not reading the last paragraph or opening the article to see the date.

I hate the guy as much as anyone but some of the reactions are not in line with the facts reported in the article.

On edit: it reads as though the material was attached to emails SENT to infowars email addresses. Those emails may have been flagged as spam and sent in a data dump to the lawyers - who can run them through a filter or open them using software that gives the data without infecting a computer.

[gibraltar72]

35. Jones was shocked. I tell you shocked!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

36. Does anyone here realize that this is a story from 2019 and he was cleared by the FBI

of any suspicion of receiving CP?

This is perhaps the most vile crime one can be charged with, and even if cleared, the stigma is still there, whether or not one is innocent.

I'm certainly not a fan of this bloated POS, but c'mon folks, let's be accurate.

[Omaha Steve]

37. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

WAY over 12 hours old. Story is from June 17, 2019.

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