HARTFORD, Conn. — Erica Lafferty, whose mother Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, said she knew “she was opening a new door to hell” when she decided to sue Alex Jones.
But the lie that she was a so-called crisis actor, rather than the daughter of a victim — a story perpetuated by Jones’ conspiracy theory that the shooting was a politically motivated hoax — had already landed her in hell, she said.
The lies condemned her to a life of grocery deliveries and Amazon orders to avoid stores, of working from home for nearly a decade to stay safe, of always avoiding crowds, new places and new people.
