A new report from the Washington Post claims the Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore courted young girls in the late '70s and early '80s. The Post spoke to four women who detailed their encounters with him when he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. The biggest allegation comes from Leigh Corfman, who was just 14-years-old when Moore approached her outside a court room. She claims that Moore offered to sit with her while her parents were inside for a custody hearing. During their conversation, she gave Moore her phone number and a few days later he brought her to his house in the woods.
Corfman says that on her first visit the two just kissed and that he promptly took her home when she asked. On the second visit, things got more intimate as Moore "took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes" and then "guided her hand to touch him over his underwear." Corfman told the Post this made her uncomfortable:
"I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she remembers thinking. “Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over."
The other three women tell similar stories. None of them claim that they ever slept with Moore or that he "forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact."
Moore issued a statement denying the allegations :
This garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation.
The Judge has been a candidate in four hotly-contested statewide political contests, twice as a gubernatorial candidate and twice as a candidate for chief justice. He has been a three-time candidate for local office, and he has been a national figure in two ground-breaking, judicial fights over religious liberty and traditional marriage.
After over 40 years of public service, if any of these allegations were true, they surely would have been made public long before now
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