Did Any Of The Children Killed At Sandy Hook Appear At Super Bowl XLVII?

The claim that no one died at Sandy Hook School on December 14, 2012, and that it was all just a “drill,” is a logistical nightmare of epic proportions—most of which conspiracy theorists conveniently hand-wave away. However, one particularly ludicrous issue they’ve tried to “solve” is this: What happened to the twenty young victims? Where did they go? If they’re all still alive, why hasn’t anyone seen them in the nearly six years since the shooting?

Enter the Super Bowl XLVII theory, where these geniuses confidently assert that the victims weren’t just hidden away but actually performed at the largest sporting event in the United States—as part of a children’s choir with Jennifer Hudson. Yes, really.

Less than two months after that terrible day in Newtown, an anonymous donor generously funded a trip for twenty-five members of Sandy Hook School’s fourth-grade choir to travel to New Orleans. There, they performed “America the Beautiful” alongside Academy Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson during the pre-game ceremonies of Super Bowl XLVII. It was a touching and emotional moment—or at least, it was for most normal, rational people. For delusional Sandy Hook deniers, however, it was apparently proof positive that the victims were alive and well, brazenly paraded in front of over 108 million American television viewers and more than 70,000 in attendance. As part of what plan? Who knows. That’s just one of the many logistical black holes in their theories, and not even the most egregious.

For starters, almost none of the choir members bear even a passing resemblance to the victims they’re alleged to be. Then there’s the matter of time travel—because somehow, the first-grade victims supposedly aged three to four years in the seven weeks between the shooting and the performance. Completely inconceivable, right? Not for conspiracy theorists like Wolfgang Halbig and Maria Chang. Their explanation? The widely circulated photos and videos of the victims, while depicting the children at the stated age, were actually taken years earlier—meaning the victims were older than reported at the time of the shooting. And their proof? None. Zero. Nada. Yet without making these ludicrous leaps, their theory collapses entirely.

Now, while most people will immediately recognize this as absurd—and offensive—the question arises: what evidence exists that the victims were real first graders, aged five or six at the time of their untimely deaths? Plenty. Nearly endless witness testimony, death certificates, SSDI entries, and more. But let’s not stop there. My goal is not only to provide clear photo comparisons that demonstrate, to anyone with even a basic understanding of facial composition, that the children performing at the Super Bowl were not the Sandy Hook victims, but to establish—beyond reasonable doubt—that it would be flat-out impossible for them to be the same children.

Before diving into this dumpster fire of a claim, let’s start with a high-resolution photo—something you’ll never get from the deniers—of the entire Super Bowl choir, taken on February 3, 2013, at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. I’ve highlighted five children, chosen specifically because they are easily identifiable across all three reference photos of Sandy Hook’s 2012-2013 fourth-grade choir, which I’ll be using in this entry:

The remaining two photos capture the same event—a fourth-grade concert that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 12, 2012—but come from different sources. The first was published in the December 21, 2012 edition of The Newtown Bee…

“Sandy Hook School’s Fourth Grade Winter Concert was held on Thursday, December 13, but before the big event, fourth grade students also performed their Winter Concert for their fellow students during a school assembly on Wednesday, December 12, under the guidance of music teacher Maryrose Kristopik.”

Source: https://photos.newtownbee.com/Journalism/12-21-12-Photos-for-the-issue/i-2PSh5qs/A

The second photo of the December 12 assembly was shared on Dawn Hochsprung’s Twitter feed:

“Sandy Hook students enjoy the rehearsal for our 4th grade winter concert – a talented group led by Maryrose Kristopik!”

By identifying and highlighting these same five children across all three photographs, it becomes clear that at least some of the choir members who performed with Jennifer Hudson in New Orleans are undeniably the same children who had been performing with the choir for months. Photographic documentation places some of these members as far back as November 12, 2012, when the choir performed at Sandy Hook’s annual Veterans Day Breakfast—an event Wolfgang Halbig insists never happened and, as such, still owes me $1,000 for disproving:

Admittedly, this alone isn’t groundbreaking evidence—and it’s not intended to be—but it further reinforces two key facts: first, that the school was open and fully operational well into late 2012, and second, that the photos available on Dawn Hochsprung’s Twitter account and The Newtown Bee’s website are accurately timestamped. They are not, as conspiracy theorists claim, images from years earlier.

Despite this, Sandy Hook deniers—through their endless stream of mislabeled images and videos spammed across the Internet—have insisted that these five highlighted children are actually the following Sandy Hook Elementary School students:

1. Anna Mattioli
2. Jessica Rekos
3. Olivia Engel
4. Jack Pinto
5. Daniel Barden
6. Avielle Richman

From that group, the only choir member they’ve successfully identified is Anna Mattioli, the older sister of victim James Mattioli. In doing so, however, they’ve inadvertently taken great strides in debunking their own nonsense.

Take a look at this photo of James and Anna:

Although we’re seeing it from behind, the single candle on the cake—which reads “Happy Birthday James”—is unmistakably in the shape of a 6, placing this photo on or very near James’ sixth birthday on March 22, 2012. Keep in mind, the ludicrous Super Bowl claim hinges on the idea that the Sandy Hook victims were actually nine years old at the time of their reported deaths in 2012, not six.

If that were true, this photo would have to have been taken in March 2009. But one look at Anna is all it takes to see how ridiculous that is. No sane person with even minimal experience around children would compare Anna’s appearance here, at her brother’s sixth birthday party, to how she looked at Super Bowl XLVII and conclude that three full years (instead of just 11 months) had passed:

Even more damning is this photo of James and Anna together at Sandy Hook in October 2012, posted to Dawn Hochsprung’s Twitter feed on the 18th:

Deniers have doubled down on this embarrassing blunder by also identifying Nate Wheeler, the older brother of six-year-old victim Benjamin Wheeler. This is especially baffling, considering they somehow believe that a now nine-year-old Ben performed right alongside him, as shown in the following image:

Like the Mattioli siblings, Nate is about three years older than Ben—a fact that becomes rather obvious when looking at photos of the two boys together:

However, in the deniers’ fever dream, Ben Wheeler miraculously managed to catch up to his older brother in both age and size—just in time to join the fourth-grade choir and perform on one of the largest stages in the world:

Surely this would qualify as some kind of record-breaking growth spurt, right? But what’s even more incredible is that, while his brother is plainly still the same child, this “Ben Wheeler” (who, in reality, is definitely not Ben Wheeler) no longer even looks like himself. Compare the “Benjamin Wheeler” alleged to have performed at the Super Bowl with three publicly available photos of the real Benjamin Wheeler:

And here’s a birthday announcement from The Newtown Bee, published on September 7, 2007, which corroborates Ben’s age at the time of his death:

Now let’s do some quick and simple math (my favorite kind!): if Ben Wheeler turned one year old on September 12, 2007, that would make him six years old on December 14, 2012.

Another pair of siblings alleged to have performed together at the Super Bowl are six-year-old victim Caroline Previdi and her older brother, Walker:

Similar to the Mattioli and Wheeler siblings, Walker is also approximately three years older than his sister. Here are a couple of photos of them together, clearly showing an obvious difference in age and development:

Yet we’re expected to believe that somehow, by February 2013 at Super Bowl XLVII, the Previdi siblings had magically become the same age—Caroline having aged three entire years while Walker looks barely a day older than he does in the photos above:

Shockingly, conspiracy theorists have thus far failed to explain these obvious disruptions to the space time continuum. And it’s only one of many.

If Caroline Previdi was actually nine years old at the time of the Super Bowl, then any photos of her as a six year-old would have had to have been taken sometime between September 2009 and September 2010. But if that were the case, how did an obviously five year-old Caroline manage to find herself in a photo with a newspaper reporting on an incident that didn’t take place until December of 2011?

If the conspiracy theorists are right—and let’s never forget, they are not—then Caroline would have been eight years old at the time of this photo. It’s pure poppycock.

Of course, this isn’t the only evidence proving Caroline Previdi was six years old at the time of her death.

During the summer of 2011, Newtown’s C.H. Booth Library hosted weekly craft programs for children aged 4-9. As reported in the August 5th, 2011 edition of The Newtown Bee, Caroline—five years old at the time and just one month away from her sixth birthday—attended the second-to-last event of the season:

“Ellie Boni, left, and Caroline Previdi created Mardi Gras masks during the library’s Crafts Around the World program on Monday, August 1.”

Source: http://photos.newtownbee.com/Journalism/Photos-from-the-issue-43/i-zK5ddz8/A

The above photo’s Exif data confirms it was taken on August 1st, 2011.

Here’s another photo of Caroline, this time posing with her friend and classmate, Catherine Hubbard, in the now-familiar and ever-changing lobby of Sandy Hook Elementary:

Notice the dry erase board in the background shows the date as Wednesday, June 20th, 2012. This was graduation day for the school’s Kindergarten students, and we can see a diploma or certificate rolled up in Catherine’s right hand. A nearly identical diploma or certificate is visible in this photo of Charlotte and Joel Bacon, taken on the very same day:

Note the date, location, and caption of the photo.

Of course, Charlotte Bacon is another girl alleged to have performed at the Super Bowl as a fourth grader (more on that later). Yet, we have definitive proof that all three girls graduated from Kindergarten at Sandy Hook Elementary School in June 2012.

Here’s yet another photo of Caroline Previdi (back row, second from the left)—her Kindergarten class photo, taken during the 2011-2012 school year:

Alongside several other victims alleged to have performed at the Super Bowl as nine-year-olds in February 2013, we see Noah Pozner seated on the right. Noah is wearing a red “Ready 4 Games” shirt by Nintendo, a design trademarked and sold in 2011:

This class photo, which unmistakably captures a group of five-year-old Kindergarten students, could not have been taken before 2011. Yet again, the conspiracy theory falls apart unless one is willing to believe these children were somehow 7-8 years old at the time this photo was taken.

And if all of that still isn’t enough to convince you (and let’s be honest, if it isn’t, you’re probably beyond help), here’s a birthday announcement for Caroline Previdi from The Newtown Bee, published just one week after Ben Wheeler’s, on September 14th, 2007:

I’ve already done the math once; don’t make me do it again.

While Catherine Hubbard is not alleged to have performed at the Super Bowl (and conspiracy theorists never quite explain why only some of the children were granted this dubious “luxury”), she can be seen in the same Kindergarten class photo. Like her classmates, Catherine was five years old at the time this photo was taken.

For further proof that Catherine was six years old at the time of her death, we turn to The Newtown Bee‘s recurring feature “Bee Lines,” where reporters posed everyday questions to Newtown residents, including schoolchildren. In April of 2012, “Bee Lines” caught up with Catherine and her mother to ask what they thought makes people turn out to vote:

“Newtown Bee: What do you think makes people turn out to vote? Jenny Hubbard and Catherine Hubbard, right: The issues.”

Source: http://photos.newtownbee.com/Journalism/Photos-from-the-issue-78/i-LKFWd2P/A

The photo’s Exif data confirms it was taken on April 24th, 2012.

Just a couple of weeks later, Catherine and her mother attended a Sandy Hook school function, as shown in this next photo. The date on the whiteboard behind them clearly indicates May 9th, 2012:

Catherine would celebrate her final birthday less than a month later.

Some of the more deranged and dangerous members of the Sandy Hook conspiracy cult—such as Tony Mead of Absolute Best Moving in Florida—have fixated on one member of the fourth-grade choir in particular, harassing the pre-teen girl and her family. They baselessly claim that she is actually murdered first-grader Avielle Richman, now allegedly living under a new identity. This claim ignores the three-year age gap between the two as well as numerous physical differences.

But these lunatics march on unabated, clinging to their delusion that all photos of Avielle are actually three years older than claimed. This nonsense, of course, falls apart with a single photo: a five-year-old Avielle with her parents, taken around Christmas of 2011:

That is plainly not a nine-year-old girl. But how do we know this photo was taken in 2011? Simple: the Williams-Sonoma The Cookbook for Kids visible on the floor, which we can reasonably assume was given to Avielle as a Christmas gift, wasn’t released until February of 2011:

That makes it an extremely unlikely gift for Christmas 2010 (unless they were celebrating six weeks late). Tragically, young Avielle didn’t live to see Christmas 2012. This means the photo could only have been taken at Christmas 2011, less than a year before the shooting. Of course, for some people, this still won’t be enough—they’ll laughably claim the book was “Photoshopped” into the image, while offering zero evidence to support such an accusation.

Not that there’s any evidence they’ll ever accept, but they’ll certainly have a tougher time explaining away the glaring physical differences between the two girls.

Instead of comparing a photo of a five- or six-year-old Avielle to a girl at least three years older and relying on wild speculation about how a child might age, let’s keep it simple: we’ll compare photos of the two girls at approximately the same age:

It’s clear that Avielle is on the left, and the girl from the Super Bowl choir is on the right. The differences are striking, but let’s break it down even further:

Ears, like fingerprints, are unique to every individual and are still widely used for forensic identification. While two people might share similar facial features, mismatched ears make it absolutely impossible for them to be the same person. There’s no need to dig any deeper. If you know what to look for, it’s undeniable that Avielle’s ears (left) are distinctly different from those of the choir girl (right). For the record, her name won’t appear here—I’m not about to help conspiracy theorists harass yet another innocent family:

This isn’t a flawless angle, but it’s more than adequate for a reliable comparison. For context, let’s review the basic anatomy of the outer ear:

As we can see, the ear on the left—belonging to Avielle Richman—is noticeably less prominent (closer to the head) than the one on the right. The ear on the right also features a much rounder antihelix, and the shape and size of the earlobe—or lobule—are entirely different. These are the most obvious, striking differences, though I’m sure you can spot even more. These are unmistakably different ears, and therefore they belong to different children. No reasonable argument can be made to the contrary.

While the demonstration above is more than enough to dismiss this nonsense outright, we can also compare the eyes of these two girls and, once again, observe a number of significant differences:

Avielle’s eyes (top) are almond-shaped, while the eyes on the bottom are distinctly downturned—a difference that is anything but subtle. The eyes on the bottom also feature a much more prominent crease in the lid. Additionally, the face on the bottom has wider-set eyes, different eyebrows, and freckles—features that Avielle simply does not have. No doubt the conspiracy theorists will claim the freckles were tattooed on later, because nothing is too absurd for these nitwits.

While I’m confident in my analysis and ultimate conclusion, I sought an expert opinion to back it up. I reached out to Joelle Steele—an anthropometrist, biometricist, and author of Face to Face: Analysis and Comparison of Facial Features to Authenticate Identities of People in Photographs. In addition to literally writing the book on identifying individuals through photographs, Joelle offers a paid facial analysis service through her website, which I decided to utilize.

When I first contacted Joelle, I introduced myself as a blogger researching the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Unsure if she was familiar with the conspiracy theories surrounding the tragedy (many people aren’t), I explained the situation, focusing on the Super Bowl angle. While I made my stance clear, I emphasized that I wanted her honest, unbiased opinion and offered to pay her upfront for her work. Joelle replied, agreeing to take on the project, but requested at least three high-quality photographs of each subject for enlargement and analysis, per her standard procedure. I sent over six of the best publicly available photos I could find—three of each girl—for her approval:

Shortly after, Joelle replied with the following response in its entirety:

Text:

From: Face Comparisons
Subject: RE: Hi, Joelle. Some questions…

This is a real no-brainer. I don’t even have to measure anything to tell you these are not the same girl. I can see at a glance how far off they are in terms of appearance. And age has nothing to do with this comparison at all. The face lengthens and teeth can change with age, but those are irrelevant in this comparison. Here’s what I immediately see:

Ears don’t match in shape, pattern, and placement on head.
Jaws don’t match, most evident in smiling views.
Chins don’t match and don’t look alike either.
Eyes don’t match in orbits and lids.
Pupil distance proportions don’t match.
Forehead proportions don’t match.
Nose length and width proportions don’t match.
Brow ridges don’t match.

With the exception of the ears, these are all based on the bones, the infrastructure of the face. If they don’t match, it’s not the same person. Period. And I would rule out a match based on ears alone, but the overwhelming number of non-matches back that up.

Next up is Olivia Engel. Like Catherine Hubbard, Olivia also appeared in The Newtown Bee’s “Bee Lines” feature—not once, but twice. Her first appearance was in November 2010:

“Newtown Bee: With Thanksgiving coming up, what are you thankful for? Olivia Engel: My blanket.”

Source: http://photos.newtownbee.com/Journalism/Photos-from-the-issue-7/i-FHhQzVT/A

The Exif data for this photograph, published in the November 19th, 2010 edition of The Newtown Bee, confirms that it was taken on November 12th, 2010. At the time, Olivia would have been just four years old—and not only does she look like a four-year-old, but the photo clearly shows her in her preschool classroom. Additionally, her “Born to Dance” shirt is from Gymboree’s Fall 2010 “Dance Team” collection, which, naturally, wasn’t available before that season:

That same month, Olivia and her family participated in their annual photoshoot at the Saugatuck Harbor Yacht Club in Westport, CT. Out of respect for the photographer, I won’t republish their work here, but over two dozen photos were taken during the session.

If you’d like to view them yourself, they can be found here on the photographer’s blog (archived here, in case the original goes down). The blog entry was published on November 13th, 2010.

As you browse through these photos, keep in mind that conspiracy kooks like Wolfgang Halbig insist the Sandy Hook victims were actually fourth graders, aged 8-9 years old, when they supposedly performed at the Super Bowl. That would make Olivia around 7-8 years old in these photos. But let’s be real—no one in their right mind would ever believe that.

Additionally, many of these photos include Olivia’s younger brother, Brayden. If Olivia were seven during this photoshoot, then Brayden, who was three years younger, would have been four. Now, how many four-year-olds do you know who can’t walk or look far more like two-year-olds?

Of course, conspiracy theorists will claim the date has been fudged and that these photos were taken much earlier than November 2010. However, in the fourth photo from the top, you can clearly see a 2011 registration sticker on the boat to the right:

Doubters are welcome to purchase these photos directly from the photographer and verify the Exif data for themselves. Of course, they won’t—but they could.

A little over a year after the yacht club photoshoot, Bee Lines caught up with Olivia again in December 2011:

Source: http://photos.newtownbee.com/Journalism/Photos-from-the-issue-58/i-tT2VLHN/A

While there’s no caption included for this photograph, the Exif data confirms it was taken on December 6th, 2011. That would make Olivia five years old in this photo, which aligns perfectly. But those pushing the absurd Super Bowl theory would have you believe this picture shows a seven- or maybe eight-year-old girl. They’d also have you believe that, just over a year later, she somehow became the girl on the right (for comparison, an actual photo of Olivia from 2012 is included on the left):

These two girls have unmistakably different noses, eyes, eyebrows, cheeks, foreheads, hairlines, and more. The girl on the right also has freckles, which are clearly visible in several photos I located after identifying her (and no, I’m never sharing her personal information, so don’t bother asking):

Yet, in every photo of Olivia, there are no freckles visible—anywhere. Then there are Olivia’s very prominent dimples, which are entirely absent on the other girl. Other photos reveal additional differences, including their ears: Olivia’s lobes are “free” and stick out from her head, while the other girl’s are attached:

When comparing ears, differences like these are insurmountable.

Now here’s a twist that I really can’t wrap my head around—it manages to contradict an entirely different claim made by these same goofs, one that also appears in the pages of James Fetzer’s fetid book.

Those who subscribe to this Super Bowl malarkey want you to believe that this is victim Emilie Parker as she appeared on February 3rd, 2013:

However, on pages 78-79 of Nobody Died At Sandy Hook, “Dr. Vivian Lee” heavily implies that it was actually Emilie—not her four-year-old sister, Madeline—who met with President Obama on December 16, 2012, just seven weeks before the Super Bowl:

This claim is more explicitly made on page 108 by some numbnuts named Paul Preston, who doesn’t even seem to know the names of the victims he’s desecrating:

“And I’ve see a lot of the pictures and so on, and some of the pictures don’t match up, especially the one of the Parkers in the White House. And it looks like to me that’s Sarah Parker sitting there that’s, you know, supposed to be a victim.” pg. 108

Sarah Parker? How in the world does anyone take these boobs seriously?

So, if this is supposedly an undersized Emilie Parker meeting with Obama, and the same Emilie Parker performed at the Super Bowl less than two months later (both claims made in the pages of Nobody Died At Sandy Hook), how do James Fetzer, “Dr. Vivian Lee,” Paul Preston, and the rest of the Sandy Hook denier camp square the two events?

• Did a very small six-year-old Emilie Parker meet with Barack Obama in December 2012, but then somehow age three years within seven weeks to perform with the Sandy Hook fourth-grade choir at Super Bowl XLVII?
• Did Barack Obama dye his hair grey and pose for photos with a very small six-year-old Emilie Parker (as well as her four-year-old sister, Madeline) back in 2009, only to save the photo for three years?
• Or did Barack Obama dye his hair grey and pose for photos with a four-year-old Emilie Parker and her two-year-old sister, Madeline, way back in 2007—two years before he even became President—just so the photo could be used in 2012?

I’d honestly love to hear their answer. But even if you ignore the absurdity of these scenarios, you’re still left with the glaringly obvious fact that these are not the same children:

Different ears (just look at the lobes), noses, eyebrows, eye shapes, and more. Even when confirmation bias demands you see a resemblance, a purely anatomical perspective makes it clear: it’s outright impossible that these photos show the same child.

Moving on, take a look at this photo of Daniel Barden with his sister and mother on 96th Street in Stone Harbor, New Jersey:

Note the boarded-up windows behind them, specifically those in front of Fralinger’s Salt Water Taffy (with the green apron), which have been spray-painted with “No Candy 4 Irene.” This references Hurricane Irene, which Stone Harbor was preparing for in late August 2011, making Daniel five years old at the time of this photo. And he certainly looks five years old.

But for this absurd theory to work, Daniel would instead have to be around eight years old here, as the photo was taken a year and a half before the Super Bowl. Now, take a good look at the above photo and ask yourself: how in the world could that child, in just 18 months, look like this?

Of course, these are just a few of the children who have been subjected to this hogwash. While I wasn’t able to find the same breadth of material seen above for all of them, there are enough high-quality photographs available online to do at least some quick side-by-side comparisons for the remaining victims.

Here’s Jessica Rekos on the right (just in case it wasn’t obvious), alongside the choir member alleged to be her on the left:

Come on! They don’t look anything alike! They don’t even appear to have the same eye color!

Next is a child who is absolutely, positively not Jack Pinto compared to the actual Jack Pinto. These are two more children who really couldn’t look any less alike—just take a quick glance at their ears. And then literally everything else.

But what if you’re so naive or detached from reality that you somehow believe these differences, as substantial as they are, are simply the result of three years of childhood development? (Or maybe you know that’s a ludicrous suggestion, but you’re going to pitch it in the comments anyway because you’re an awful person.) Surely, if we were able to locate some photos of this boy from 2009, when he was six years old, and compare them to known photos of Jack Pinto, it would be obvious that they are one and the same, right? Oh wait—I was able to do exactly that, and the results are as expected:

Yup, definitely still not the same kid.

Not Chase Kowalski and the real Chase Kowalski. Just take a look at the nose, the chin, the lips, the upper ear, and the distance between the eyes:

Additionally, it is well established that Chase love sports and participated in the “Kids Who Tri Succeed” children’s triathlon in August of 2012, sixteen weeks before the shooting and twenty-three weeks prior to Super Bowl XLVII. Chase’s parents have publicly shared photos of their son from this event, and it’s abundantly clear that they do not depict the same boy alleged to have performed with the fourth grade choir less than six months later:

Unsurprisingly, Chase competed in the 4–6-year-old age bracket (and not the 9–11-year-old bracket, as one would expect from a fourth grader). His age is further confirmed by the triathlon results published on the Kids Who Tri Succeed website:

Notice the bib number—92—matches the one seen in the photo above. Chase can also be seen competing in the swimming portion of the triathlon alongside the other 4–6-year-olds in his bracket:

Does that look like a fourth grader to you?

Now let’s compare a girl who is not Allison Wyatt with the real Allison Wyatt:

Ignoring the very different ears (particularly the lobes), noses, eye shapes, and so on, these are yet another pair of kids who don’t even have the same eye color. How blind—or willfully ignorant—do you need to be to think these are the same girls, separated by any length of time?

Just because this next girl is wearing glasses doesn’t mean she’s Josephine Gay—a child who had autism, global apraxia, and apraxia of speech. These challenges alone would make her an extremely unlikely candidate to perform in front of over 71,000 people at one of the largest sporting events in the world:

Additionally, this same choir member was photographed just outside the school with her brother (Josephine Gay had no brothers) and her mother (who is quite clearly not Michelle Gay) on the day of the shooting. Reuters identified her as a fourth-grade student—and not Josephine Gay:

This same girl was photographed by the Newtown Bee nearly two years earlier, as a second grader, participating in Pajama Day at Sandy Hook:

Now nearly the same age, it’s beyond obvious that she is not Josephine Gay:

A young lady who is very clearly not Charlotte Bacon, alongside the actual Charlotte Bacon:

In addition to the earlier photo of Charlotte at her June 20, 2012, kindergarten graduation, here’s another picture of her celebrating her sixth birthday at the American Girl Café:

You can see the distinctive American Girl “It’s My Birthday!” sticker on Charlotte’s shirt, along with the café’s signature pink bow napkin holder on the table. Both can be matched to items shown in this photo from an eBay listing for “American Girl Place Café Girls Pink Bow Hair Ponytails Napkin Holder Stickers”:

Of much greater significance is the doll seated at the table with Charlotte. This doll is American Girl’s “Marie Grace Gardner,” which wasn’t released until late 2011 (thank you, JC, for this information):

Therefore, it is impossible for Charlotte’s birthday photo to have been taken any earlier than late 2011. It was almost certainly taken on or very near her sixth birthday, February 22, 2012. That means less than a year passed between these two photos:

And what exactly happened to the distinctive freckle on Charlotte’s nose?

That freckle is nowhere to be found on the girl from the fourth-grade choir who performed at the Super Bowl—yet again alleged to be victim Charlotte Bacon:

A girl who is clearly not Madeline Hsu and the actual Madeline Hsu:

Much like many of the other choir members, I had no trouble finding additional photos of the girl on the left online, including this one from 2010, when she would have been six years old. I’ve placed it side-by-side with Madeline’s school photo—just in case it wasn’t already glaringly obvious how different they look:

Then there’s this photo, showing Madeline posing with a doll in what is unmistakably an IKEA:

Madeline is posing with the LEKKAMRAT doll, which, according to page 220 of IKEA’s 2012 catalog, was new that year:

It’s impossible for the above photo to have been taken any time prior to 2012. Does the girl in that photo look like a ten-year-old, let alone the one who sang at Super Bowl XLVII? Of course not.

Here are two photos of a child alleged to be Jesse Lewis juxtaposed with two photos of the real Jesse Lewis:

No disrespect to the boy on the left—he’s just a kid and has almost certainly faced real-life harassment from the denier cult—but just look at those teeth. How broken does your brain need to be to believe this is the same child?

Additionally, here’s a photo of a five-year-old Jesse attending the 2011 Veterans Day breakfast with his grandfather, Bob Comfort:

Originally published by the Newtown Bee, the photo’s Exif data confirms it was taken on November 11, 2011. Additionally, the Highlights “Puzzles & Games” 2012 wall calendar seen in the display case behind them would not have been sold at any other time. Yet for Jesse to have appeared at the Super Bowl as a nine-year-old fourth-grade student, he would need to have been eight years old here.

Finally, here’s a young woman who is not Grace McDonnell. The difference in facial shape alone makes that abundantly clear:

An older, clearer photo of the girl on the left that I found on social media, again compared to the real Grace McDonnell—for good measure:

Of course, Grace could not have been nine years old in February 2013, as she turned six on November 4, 2011—a fact corroborated by The Newtown Bee in a birthday announcement published that same day:

Grace can also be seen wearing a distinctive green-and-blue tartan dress in her 2012–2013 school photo—a photo predictably dismissed as “fake” by the usual suspects, thanks to the oh-so-suspicious practice of using a backdrop:

This dress is the “Velvet Bow Plaid Duppioni Dress” from Gymboree’s 2012 Fall “Cherished Traditions” line.

According to this site (and you can find the dress in question toward the bottom of the page), this specific collection was released in stores on September 24th, 2012—less than three months before the shooting. It is literally impossible for the school photo to have been taken prior to that date, as the clothes were not yet commercially available. More likely, the photo was taken on Friday, September 28th, as noted in the September 6th, 2012 edition of The Sandy Hook Connection (the school’s newsletter), which specified that school photos were scheduled for that day:

With this in mind, and knowing that Grace’s school photo (along with her classmates’) was taken on September 28th, 2012, how could anyone in their right mind believe she’s the same girl who performed at the Super Bowl barely eighteen weeks later? Get real.

Note: Special thanks to JC for finding and submitting some of the material used in this entry. It’s greatly appreciated.