“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” — Soren Kirkegaard

We were like many around the world, glued to the television and the Internet in disbelief of the Sandy Hook shootings.

It can take years to build respect, credibility and a good reputation, but only a few minutes for someone with ill-intent to come along on the Internet and try to impeach it with lies and defamation. Perhaps no one knows this better than Lenny Pozner, whose life was turned upside down when his son Noah became the…

Jillian Soto planned the day for months. It was the third annual race in honor of her sister Vicki Soto, a teacher gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, three years earlier. Thousands of people came out to run the November race and raise money for scholarships. The roads were dotted with…

On the morning of December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza , 20, enters the elementary school in Sandy Hook, in Newtown in Connecticut and, before committing suicide, kills 27 people: 20 are children between 6 and 7 years. The smallest is called Noah Pozner, his two sisters studying in a classroom next door and saved. Noah dies…

Lenny Pozner’s young son died in the Sandy Hook mass killing. Conspiracy theorists believe the killing was staged. Pozner’s efforts to educate them, to prove that his son died, only resulted in relentless trolling and harassment. Yet he keeps trying: “I’m going to have to protect Noah’s honor for the rest of my life,”…

Here is the reality that Leonard Pozner faces every day:

Nowadays abuse against victims and their families affected by incidences of mass violence has increased in certain parts of the world. The reasons for this may be unknown but it is surely an evil that must be curbed. There are times when people are abused emotionally as well as physically. Emotional abuse is actually…