Do You Find It Repulsive That Conservative Whack Jobs Are Calling The Sandy Hook Elementary Massacre A HOAX?

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A hero of the Sandy hook massacre who sheltered six terrified children after they fled their classroom today told how he has been branded a pedophile in outrageous attacks by conspiracy theorists.

A growing online community of people who deny the horrific elementary school shooting ever took place has begun barraging Rosen on a daily basis.

Some call him a pedophile, others say he's a satanist or an actor hired to by 'the government.' Many of his anonymous attackers accuse him of being all three.

The baseless claims are likely to cause outrage in Newtown as families continue to struggle to come to terms with the horror of December’s massacre that shocked the nation.



Rosen, 69, granted numerous TV interviews after the shootings and emotionally described sheltering the students on who fled Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14 after 20 of their classmates and six adults were murdered there.

He became one of the most public faces of the grief in Newtown, Connecticut, weeping openly on camera - and without embarrassment.

The retired psychologist told Salon.com that he thought it was important to tell the nation how brave the young children had been after watching their teacher and their classmates gunned down.

Songwriters Brad Alexander and Jill Abramovitz, moved by the interviews, even wrote a song about him and posted it on YouTube.

But his high profile has seemingly made him the prime target of 'truther' conspiracy theorists who believe that the horrific shootings never actually happened.

They claim that the government - or a satanist coven, or a group of conspirators linked to President Barack Obama - staged the shooting. Some claim that it was a hoax that never happened. Others say the victims were actually sacrificed in a demonic ritual.





Some of these people have begun calling Rosen at his home or sending him emails demanding to know 'how much is he being paid.' Someone posted a photo of his house.

Others call him the 'emotional Jewish guy' and attempt to tie that into their conspiracy theories.

Numerous YouTube videos have been upload that purport to 'expose' his 'lies.'

One man, posting under the name Police State Radio, recorded a 15-minute video in which he claimed at least one of the Sandy Hook victims was killed in Rosen's basement.

'She was sacrificed in the house, in Gene's house,' the man says.

The entire ordeal has made Rosen deeply uncomfortable - and furious.

'I thought of an expression, that this "adds insult to injury," but that’s a stupid expression, because this is not an injury, this is an abomination,' he told Salon.

The 'truther' movement is growing and gaining some more mainstream backers.

Ben Swann, an anchor for the Fox affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy have both publicly questioned whether the shootings happened - or at least happened they way police say they did.

Last month, Rosen said he had just finished feeding his cats and was heading from his home near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner on Friday morning when he saw six small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway.

A school bus driver was standing over them, telling them things would be all right. It was about 9.30am, and the children, he discovered, had just run from the school to escape a gunman.

'We can't go back to school,' one little boy told Rosen. 'Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher.'


Rosen took the four girls and two boys into his home, and over the next few hours gave them toys, listened to their stories and called their frantic parents.

He said he had heard the staccato sound of gunfire about 15 minutes earlier but had dismissed it as an obnoxious hunter in the nearby woods.

'I had no idea what had happened,' Rosen said. 'I couldn't take that in.'

He walked the children past his small goldfish pond with its running waterfall, and the garden he made with his two grandchildren, into the small yellow house he shares with his wife.

He ran upstairs and grabbed an armful of stuffed animals.

He gave those to the children, along with some fruit juice, and sat with them as the two boys described seeing their teacher being shot.

Victoria Soto, 27, was a first-grade teacher killed when 20-year-old Adam Lanza burst into her classroom.

'This little boy turns around, and composes himself, and he looks at me like he had just removed himself from the carnage and he says, "Just saying, your house is very small,"' Rosen said. 'I wanted to tell him, "I love you. I love you."'


It wasn't clear how the children escaped harm, but there have been reports that Soto hid some of her students from the approaching gunman.

The six who turned up at Rosen's home did apparently have to run past her body to safety.

'They said he had a big gun and a little gun,' said Rosen, who didn't want to discuss other details the children shared.

Rosen called the children's parents, using cellphone numbers obtained from the school bus company, and they came and retrieved their children.

One little girl, he said, spent the entire ordeal clutching a small stuffed Dalmatian to her chest and staring out the window looking for her mommy.

And one little boy brought them all a moment of levity.

'This little boy turns around, and composes himself, and he looks at me like he had just removed himself from the carnage and he says, "Just saying, your house is very small,"' Rosen said. 'I wanted to tell him, "I love you. I love you."'



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