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Leigh Corfman says she was 14 years old when an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala. She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore.
It was early 1979 and Moore now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. He struck up a conversation, Corfman and her mother say, and offered to watch the girl while her mother went inside for a child custody hearing.
He said, Oh, you dont want her to go in there and hear all that. Ill stay out here with her, says Corfmans mother, Nancy Wells, 71. I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.
Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/woman-says-roy-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14-he-was-32/2017/11/09/1f495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?utm_term=.b8efc51c12e0
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)The only pretend to be shocked when it's someone other than a Republican politician
ProfessorGAC
(65,321 posts)Those that would vote for a scum like Moore are going to say the 14 year old was asking for it. And then vote for him.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)Oneironaut
(5,538 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)ClarendonDem
(720 posts)The SPLC, and disliked Moore long before Trump came on the scene. Hope this is his downfall.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Every shady, marginal person connected to or appointed by Trump and Bannon has not been some coincidental occurrence. They have been deliberately hand-picked to be walking, talking inversions of the very posts to which they are selected. They are meant to deliver a domestic shock and awe expression of the new Republican order.
Senate candidate Roy Moore is yet another grossly defective and criminal expression of Americas own Russian-influenced totalitarian regime. One hopes that he will be taken down by these tragic accounts as they are brought forth into daylight.
ismnotwasm
(42,022 posts)Believe it or not, Where this would have been defended. Because 14. Red herring arguments about sex and sexuality would have been tossed up (i.e. is it still a crime if the guy was 16) I am so glad those creeps are long gone.