Former Moore colleague: 'Common knowledge' that he dated high school girl

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A former colleague of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore said Saturday that it was "common knowledge" that the Alabama Republican dated high school girls when he worked in the Etowah County District Attorney's Office in the 1980s.In a statement to CNN, Teresa Jones, who served as Deputy District Attorney for Etowah County, Ala., from 1982 until 1985, said that multiple people thought it was unusual that Moore dated high school girls, but that no one ever raised the matter with him.

"It was common knowledge that Roy Moore dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird," Jones told CNN. "We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall ... but you really wouldn't say anything to someone like that."Moore, now 70, served as the Assistant District Attorney for Etowah County from 1977 until 1982.

Jones' comments came two days after an explosive Washington Post report detailed allegations that Moore pursued sexual and romantic relations with teenage girls when he was in his early 30s. One of Moore's accusers, Leigh Corfman, told the Post that the former Alabama Supreme Court justice initiated a sexual encounter with her in 1979, when she was just 14 and he was 32.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359939-former-moore-colleague-common-knowledge-that-he-dated-teen

[JI7]

1. Man in his 30s hanging out at high school football games and the mall

One thing that Moore said I his defense was that he only dated girls with permission from their mother.

Most woman of legal age don't ask for permission from parents to date someone.

[HipChick]

2. Good point...

[mopinko]

4. yeah, giant red flag, imho.

[brewens]

3. I graduated from high school in 1979 in Idaho. We would not have taken kindly to a 32 year old man

coming around, dating one of the girls. That would never have been acceptable to adults here either. He most likely would have got his ass kicked at the least.

[Madam45for2923]

5. Ex-colleague: Moore dated high school girls

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