Sandy Hook denier arrested after death threats made to parent of victim

[WhiteTara]

Source: USA Today

A Florida woman who believes the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting was a hoax was arrested Monday on charges she threatened the parent of a child killed in the 2012 school shooting.

Lucy Richards, 57, of Tampa, Fla., was indicted on four counts of transmitting threats, according to a statement from the United States Attorney Southern District of Florida.

The Sandy Hook shooting is approaching it's fourth anniversary. On Dec. 14, 2012, 20 children and six school staffers were fatally shot at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. By Adam Lanza, 20. Lanza later fatally shot himself.

According to authorities, Richards made a series of death threats against the parent of a child who was killed in the shooting. The parent now lives in South Florida was identified in a statement as LP.

Richards is accused of telling the parent “you gonna die, death is coming to you real soon," according to federal court documents. The statementes were made in January. She also wrote, "Look behind you it's death," according to the documents.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/12/07/truther-arrested-after-death-threats-made-parent-sandy-hook-shooting-vicitm/95085868/

[Aristus]

1. There is no sin or crime too horrible, loathsome, or despicable that gun-nuts won't

commit to protect their precious gunzzzzzzzz!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This is the frightening result of propaganda from the far right like Alex Jones and so on

Breitbart (now official White House representative) and others.

Sadly the dupes they use will commit violence, eventually. I dont see how this is fixable now that the Russians were allowed to hack our voting machines and caused the illegal election of Donald Trump.

[Botany]

3. And this comes from Trump's good buddy Alex Jones

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028333359

[LittleGirl]

4. WTF is wrong with people - omg. eom

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. These people are fucking sick!

This makes me want to cry.

[PSPS]

6. Gee, it only took 12 months to get around to arresting them.

[riversedge]

7. This women seems to have a history with the law. I will never understand why some people

believe in these fake stories (like the more recent pizza-gate story!!) -. They need long term psychological help--and doubt they will get it in jail






A mugshot of Lucy Richards from a 1997 arrest courtesy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. She was arrested for petit theft, according to arrest documents. (Photo: Courtesy of CBS4 Miami)






...............While it may seem unfathomable to some that Richards believed the shooting was a hoax, she is far from alone. A small movement of “Sandy Hook Truthers” promote conspiracy theories that allege the shooting was staged.

If convicted of all four counts, Richards could face up to 20 years in prison.

Richards is scheduled to appear in a Fort Lauderdale court on Dec. 19.

USA TODAY

Mr. Trump, denounce Alex Jones: Sandy Hook principal's daughter

[PatSeg]

12. I think we are experiencing

some sort of mass derangement and it seems to be worldwide. A large percentage of people are very vulnerable and gullible, easily manipulated by propaganda and with the Internet it can easily spread like the plague.

[barbtries]

8. lock her up!

lock her up! lock her up!

it horrifies me that a bereft mother of an innocent, murdered child would be harassed and threatened like this. i really do hope they throw the book at her. like don't let her out of prison until she acknowledges that Sandy Hook happened and was a massive tragedy and travesty of this nation's obsession with guns.

[dhill926]

9. vile....

[heaven05]

10. deplorable Alex Jones radio show

listener. And jones is a personal friend of the trumpfuhrer. Imagine that..................

[whathehell]

11. Florida strikes again..

[lark]

13. I will guarantee she's a drumpf voter.

She needs to be in jail for a long time with court ordered psych treatment. What a total hater and lunatic, OMG.

[n2doc]

14. Good

Although she undoubtedly needs a stretch in a mental hospital, I'm ok with prison too.

[Oneironaut]

15. It's odd that CTers are still harassing Sandy Hook victims.

Riddle me this, though. If all of the victims' families are crisis actors, how are the CTers able to call them at a legitimate number? Oh wait, the government changed their last names to their characters' names, gave them houses in Sandy Hook, and set their phone lines up, right?



(And, of course, nobody in the town of Sandy Hook noticed the new presence of these crisis actors)

[Moral Compass]

16. Look where this started

Alex Jones does the electronic equivalent of shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater every day. I don't know if he was the actual creator of the Sandy Hook "truther" thing, but he definitely promulgated it. Now he is fanning the flames of the crazy Pizzagate thing which is spreading like a virus among the loons.

Here is the thing--this crazy, irresponsible nutcase is going to get people killed if he hasn't already. There have always been and should be limits to the 1st amendment.

When do we, as a society, start working on a solution to the flaws in our Constitution?

They are literally killing us. The election of Trump is just the latest symptom. Pizzagate is another. The Sandy Hook insanity another.

We are a country being dragged down into madness by our own mentally ill--made strangely powerful by our system.

The ironic fact is that any cure could be far worse than the disease.

[PSPS]

23. This isn't a 1st amendment issue

Outfits like YouTube, Facebook, DirecTV, TV & radio stations and your cable company are all private businesses. They have absolute control over what they carry and disseminate. If they wanted to, they could summarily shut down these incendiary things. The only reason they don't is they have no morality or feeling of obligation to society.

[Vinca]

17. How can people be this crazy and not be in an institution somewhere??

[geek tragedy]

18. how long before Mikey Flynn hires her?nt

[world wide wally]

19. Throw away the fucking key before its too late

[Faux pas]

20. Some people

have totally lost their humanity...Most of them voted for his royal orangeness.

[Generator]

21. This nut is Trump's base

His core believers. If he sets them on us they would easily go after us. This, the pizza shop-what's next?

[TomCADem]

22. Another Fake News Vigilante

Fox News, Breitbart, paid propaganda pushers. It is really pathetic the degree to which the press has degenerated.

Please support real journalism. It is a dying breed. Subscribe to WaPo, NY Times and print news papers. Donate to NPR and Pro Publica. They are not perfect, but at least they are not pushing pure BS 24/7.