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On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Roy Moore pursued sexual relationships with teen girls as a 32-year-old prosecutor. An Alabama woman, Leigh Corfman, told the Washington Post that she was sexually assaulted by Moore when she was just 14.
Moore initially called the report fake news, but appeared on Sean Hannitys radio show on Friday with a far less definitive message. Moore denied knowing Corfman, but did not rule out dating teens while he was in his 30s. Instead, Moore said that dating teens would have been out of my customary behavior. He added that he didnt generally remember pursuing sexual relationships with teens.
One person who does remember is his former colleague in the district attorneys office, Teresa Jones. She told CNN that it was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls. According to Jones, Moore would hang out at high school football games and the mall.
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Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)No.
Molested.
Abused.
Raped.
gordianot
(15,236 posts)Pedophilia does not generally go away.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Molested young girls at his church? Molested young girls on group outings? A guy like that doesn't stop. Anyone who is moral should have that in their heads.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)This is copied from FB. You will probably see it soon. I looked at the womans page and she seems believable.
"An account from Mary Jo West, who is from Jasper but now lives in Birmingham (according to her Facebook page):
I need to say something, not because I want to get political, but because I know the truth and I need to tell it.
The now-national story about Roy Moore and Leigh Corfman is true, and I have known it for over 20 years. Leighs mother and step-father have been friends of mine since 1992 and I know them to be the best of people. We dont share the same political beliefs but we love and respect each other on a level deeper than politics and these wonderful friends tell the truth. They are caring and educated and accomplished people who would choose privacy over headlines any day.
Leighs mother told me and others The Roy Moore Story in the mid-1990s, because her daughter had finally unburdened herself after years of silence and that burden lay dark and deep on a mothers shoulders and in that mothers heart. I listened to the same details as those that are printed now, and while some of the story has faded with time, several facts are seared into my brain: 1) the attacker was attorney Roy Moore and the victim was then teenager Leigh Corfman; 2) Roy Moore got Leigh to his house under false pretenses; 3) Roy Moore made overt sexual advances to Leigh which involved Roy Moore coming out of the bathroom undressed and ready for action; 4) Leigh was terrified and had the good sense to say NO and Roy Moore accepted her NO.
During Roy Moores political ascent, Ive almost called Leighs mother many times to suggest that they expose who Roy Moore is at his core, but I realize that this story is Leighs to tell
no one elses. Why has she not exposed him before now? Perhaps because no one likes being called a liar and she is being called that now. Perhaps because that secret was safer locked away from the pain that she must be reliving now and having to deal with all over again.
Whatever it is, it is NOT a political conspiracy. Leighs parents bleed Republican red as long as I have known them
and Leigh says she has voted Republican in the last three elections. While this story has the He said, She said element, surely the counterbalance on the scales in Leighs favor is US
the group of friends who knew the story before it was a headline. There was simply no reason for Leigh to make this story up when she was young and trying to figure out life. Roy Moores terrifying advances surely had to complicate the path that she admitted was filled with choices she would like to redo. She owned them, admirably, but I wonder if some of her young years might have been easier if she hadnt been abused by Roy Moore when she was 14 years old, vulnerable and confused.
Perhaps its simply that its time to shout from the rooftops that this man, Roy Moore
who wants our nations trust and our belief that he is a good man... simply doesnt deserve our trust. He lied yesterday when he said he had never met Leigh Corfman. Maybe hes gotten too old to act on his abnormal urges now, but in his heart, he still knows that when he could, he scared and emotionally scarred young women and in that chamber of his heart, his blood still runs mean and cold.
I believe in redemption and forgiveness. Ive asked for forgiveness many times in my life, but first, you have to acknowledge that you did something wrong. And yesterday Roy Moore stood staunch and unyielding that he did no wrong. Take a lie detector test, Mr. Moore. Theres nothing fake in this story. Roy Moore is lying. This story happened and it was shared mother-to-mother with no agenda other than to get it off her chest and share her agony. Women friends do that, thankfully. Leighs mother told me this story when Roy Moore was a nobody
now hes just a lying somebody.
Just because Leigh Corfman didnt come forward and tell this horrific story about a bad man until now, doesnt mean that it never happened. Its her story. Yes, it was a long time coming, but she told her own story on her own timeline. The swelling tides filled with the tears of victimized womens deep dark secrets can no longer return to the sea. There are many of us standing with you, Leigh, saying Good for You, and Me Too. #NoMoore"