Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32
Source: Washington Post
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.
Read more: 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?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.888b5a9629bf
bearsfootball516
(6,376 posts)Hope he drops out.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)What a guy, he's a shoo-in for Senator.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Gross Old PERVERT. He has had lots of practice, sibce he was young when this happened. Hopefully, more females will come out in support of this woman's claims. There are ALWAYS more victims in cases such as this. These old goats never learn.
hlthe2b
(102,200 posts)niyad
(113,232 posts)Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)plus he can wave the bible real well under people's noses
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Unless, of course, he LOSES!
Aristus
(66,310 posts)He isn't a man at all. Men (straight men, anyway...) have relations with grown women, not little girls...
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,316 posts)Men do shitty things sometimes. Using the "no true Scotsman" approach to the definition of manhood makes the issue of men behaving badly harder to solve.
calimary
(81,194 posts)About this very thing. Connected it to the mass shootings and violent crime in general that are VASTLY by 'n' large committed by white males.
Said it's a serious issue and that we should start focusing more on our boys when they're still little boys, to guide them toward a better way of being, believing, and behaving. He pointed out that there is an effort to do so now, in many schools, but said we need to start that much earlier than how it is, currently.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,316 posts)attitude toward violence, bodily consent, social norms and roles, power and so on. I'd like the idea of "toxic masculinity" to be more widely understood and discussed.
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)At least, I hope thats what his fans wont say.
Another reason I could never be a Christian: one prayer wipes out a thousand atrocities.
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)That's not the issue Delmar. Even if that did put you square with the Lord, the State of Mississippi's a little more hard-nosed.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,967 posts)lostnfound
(16,170 posts)The moralizing part of the GOP is full of perverts.
NO surprise.
global1
(25,240 posts)It would be interesting if he did - to see what he said about Moore.
mobeau69
(11,139 posts)He was Bannon's guy.
calimary
(81,194 posts)Bannon himself being a wife-beater. Never charged because his ex-wife didn't testify against him. And why didn't she testify against him? Because he called her the night before the trial and threatened her if she showed up in court the next day. And hey! Charges dropped! Like magic!
BootinUp
(47,138 posts)FlyByNight
(1,756 posts)it only stands to reason: anyone that publicly pious is usually hiding something. This pig would be no different.
IronLionZion
(45,411 posts)This is very important stuff
Is DU ready to make Alabama blue again?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)hallelujah!
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)was in his thirties. Utterly disgusting.
HELLO, RAPE CULTURE??
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I don't recall that they shut down any comments on their articles. I wonder why this one?
K&R
Timmygoat
(779 posts)With all these sexual predators being revealed now, why is nothing being said about the sex predator in chief, who openly bragged about it on the access Hollywood tape.
democrank
(11,092 posts)"He picked her up around the corner from her house" like a well-practiced predator. These guys know exactly how to do it. Look for someone vulnerable, pounce at just the right moment, enjoy the power. Then.... do it again and again and again.
Her skirt was probably too short. She asked for it. She didn't say no. If it really happened, why didn't she report it right away? She's lying because Roy Moore would never do anything like that.
Sexual abuse/molestation changes you....forever.
I hope Roy Moore goes down in red hot flames.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)Praise jeeeeeeeeeesus!!!!!!!
tiptonic
(765 posts)A little too graphic for me. Hope the scumbag goes to prison.
J_William_Ryan
(1,751 posts)what a surprise
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)All 4 are going to have their lives trashed by the trump humpers. They're very brave to come forward.
angrychair
(8,690 posts)To republicans.
It would matter to Democrats and Independents.
Not to republicans.
As long as they can spew hate and bile and vilify Democrats, especially Clinton, they could not care less.
In red state Alabama it is a non-issue, more likely than not, it will likely help him get elected.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)degenerate "republican family values" are completely unlike the American values of honesty, integrity, honor, respect for others, accepting responsibility for one's actions, taking a protective stance on behalf of women and children when necessary, and so forth. So the republican voters won't give a fig or a fart about this lechery. In their eyes, this sort of lowlife, sexual predator crap just part of being a good, old boy republican a-hole.
stopbush
(24,395 posts)We have our standards!
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)SandyZ
(186 posts)I just saw a thread about CK Louis? I was thinking about all the women and girls, that have been for years stating this is their life, their experience. How often it was dismissed.
This story sounds about right.
underpants
(182,736 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)I read it from start to finish, and it's clear that the WaPo researched the heck out Olof this. They verified the date of the court appearance, confirmed the story with people she spoke to at the time, and found other women with the same story.
Moore's people can cry "fake news" all they want, but it won't make the story go away. Whether it has an impact on Alabama voters is another story altogether.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Who would have imagined how far and how fast the GOP has fallen from even that standard of character?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)hueymahl
(2,482 posts)I'm sure they have already justified it - "that slut must have lead him on" etc.
Deplorable is too kind a word.
Ligyron
(7,624 posts)That's a bit much.
At least there's no reports of sexual assault in the article although, shame on me, I initially hoped there might be. Even to bring this intolerant jerk down I wouldn't wish that on anyone. This is inappropriate enough. 14? Jeebus.
The ladies all have a similar look. Wonder what Moore's mother looked like?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear."
Which falls well within the parameters of...
"...a person is coerced or physically forced to engage against their will, or non-consensual sexual touching of a person. Sexual assault is a form of sexual violence, and it includes rape (such as forced vaginal, anal or oral penetration or drug facilitated sexual assault), groping, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the person in a sexual manner."
(Black's Law Dictionary, 8th Edition)
Ligyron
(7,624 posts)Thanks for pointing this out.
Therefore: shame on him!
The GOP Senate leadership are all over this now calling on Moore to step aside. Anything which causes chaos with them is fine by me.
Yavin4
(35,432 posts)mchill
(1,017 posts)They didn't in Montana.
mchill
(1,017 posts)he asked out three women 16-18 years of age.
Vidal
(642 posts)This is no guarantee he will lose. This is how low the GOP has sunk.
Once they elected Trump then that set a new baseline for disgusting candidates.
Orangeutan
(204 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,379 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,843 posts)This is very pessimistic of me, but, it won't matter. His supporters will say it's a smear of a good, Christian man like Roy. They will say that in the 70s it was a different time and Roy just was looking for a young woman to be a good mother and wife. They will say that it doesn't matter as long as he gets in there and saves all of Jesus' little unborn babies. They will shrug their shoulders and say, "They're all bad."
Having lived here for 45 years, I can honestly say that Alabama is an intellectual and moral hole.
HOWEVER! There are many, many, wonderful people who are smart, ethical, and fabulous. They will do their best to make sure their Republican neighbors don't vote for this creep. That gives me hope.
Driving throughout the Birmingham area I see nary a Roy sticker or sign, and I see a host of Jones signs. Of course Birmingham is a blue island in a really red state.
Here is my hope regarding these revelations: While the Xtian right will get their base out, there will be many 'normal' Republicans who just can't stomach voting for him. They will not vote for Jones, but they will also stay home. This story will depress his turnout and boost Doug Jones' turnout. Doug MAY pull this out.
I've been saddened and disappointed by my state so many times. I'm pessimistic for a reason, but, I have a glimmer of hope.
DOUG JONES FOR SENATE!
not fooled
(5,801 posts)with these accounts, there are probably many more. Who thinks Moore stopped at four?
GOPervert.
Hypocrite.
CanonRay
(14,097 posts)But his supporters won't care because Jesus...
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Is that one of them?
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Stuart G
(38,414 posts)He will lose because there is a certain place in politics you do not go...and he went.
Now, if it were one perhaps he could call it fake news. It is not one, at 3pm ET it is now 5. He will lose or withdraw. I recall the guy who said something about a woman being raped could prevent the baby from being conceived. All she had to do was "will" that it would not happen and it would not happen. welllllllll
dumb is dumb....That dumb one lost. This rapist will lose.
With 5, Ray More is done.. This scum can go to hell. If he says in, he will lose. And, he can call still them liars, and he will lose worse. These women are taking risks presenting information like this. They will be believed more than ..........Judge Ray More...chief in charge of raping young women.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,379 posts)Loyd
(309 posts)I'm gonna need a bigger puke bucket!
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,379 posts).@ddale8 is calling Alabama GOP officials, one by one, to get their reactions to the Post's story on Roy Moore.
Link to tweet
More Hall: The other women that theyre using to corrobrate: number one, one was 19, one was 17, one was 16. Theres nothing wrong with a 30-year-old single male asking a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old, or a 16-year-old out on a date."
Link to tweet
Roland99
(53,342 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,169 posts)"Who was it some Hollywood librul elite?...
Oh...it was a Republican Senate candidate?"
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)weydowner
(100 posts)Is the reason so very many Americans claim to be born-again the fact that so many seem to have had a less-than-moral (to put it politely) past?
Over the last couple of years I've come across more shady characters than in the background scenes of Goodfellas. If anyone ever thinks that Trump couldn't get any more disgusting, hold those thoughts since Moore was already one of the most disgusting exhibits before this current s--tstorm.