“It seems so incredible to me that we have to do this — that we have to implore you, to punish you — to get you to stop lying,” Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of a 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, said. ⁠ ⁠ Their son was a first grader who was among the 20 students and six teachers killed at the school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012.⁠ ⁠ For years, bombastic far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ranted to his millions of followers that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, that children weren’t killed and that parents were crisis actors in an elaborate ruse to force gun control.⁠ ⁠ Under oath and facing a jury that could hit him with $150 million or more in damages for his false claims, Jones said Wednesday he now realizes that was irresponsible and believes that what happened in the deadliest school shooting in American history was “100% percent real.”⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to read more. ⁠