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DemocratSinceBirth

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Thu Nov 9, 2017, 04:06 PM Nov 2017

With the Roy Moore allegations do pedophiles have a place in the Republican party?

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 don’t want her to go in there and hear all that. I’ll stay out here with her,’ ” says Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, 71. “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.”

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=.f9dd91753673

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With the Roy Moore allegations do pedophiles have a place in the Republican party? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2017 OP
Why not? atreides1 Nov 2017 #1
If sexual predators and traitors have a place, yes pedophiles are welcomed. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #2
they run the party gopiscrap Nov 2017 #3
It's a CanonRay Nov 2017 #4
They always have. Why change now ? nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #5
Anthony WeinerRepublicans dont own this problem nt justiceischeap Nov 2017 #6
GOP - Geriatric Order of Pedophiles Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #7
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