Mother of Sandy Hook victim on Alex Jones: "I could only feel compassion for him"

Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was among those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, says she has forgiven online conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for his repeated claims that the fatal mass shooting was "staged" — but still wanted to hold him accountable.

"I could only feel compassion for him," Lewis said of her first time addressing Jones in-person at a court hearing last week. "What I saw was just a man, a human being in pain, lonely with no one there to testify for him. He had not a person there."

For years, Jones claimed the shooting, which remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history, as a "false flag" created with the intent of increasing gun control in the country. On public platforms, Jones accused family members of the massacre's shooting victims, like Lewis, of being "crisis actors."