New Jersey 101.5 morning host Bill Spadea is being sued for defamation by a child psychologist who was a guest on his show.
Steven Tobias works at the Center for Child and Family Development filed the suit earlier this week, alleging Spadea defamed him in August 2022 during a “town hall” broadcast on the station by saying Tobias should be indicted for child abuse for his insistence that masks be worn by children in public schools. Spadea also allegedly encouraged parents to “reject crackpots” like Tobias.
Tobias, who has made appearances on the station for more than 15 years, claims he didn’t encourage mask-wearing in schools while on the station. In fact, he claims he said the opposite, saying “the worst thing a parent or caregiver can do is to abruptly try to force a young child to wear a mask”.
Spadea has yet to respond publicly, but did retweet a post made supporting him in the lawsuit that said the host “spoke the truth from the beginning of the lockdown and got it right”.
