HOLIER-THAN-THOU GOPer IN KID SCANDAL
Gals: Senate hopeful made sex moves on us as teens
FOUR WOMEN reportedly charged that Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore pursued inappropriate relationships with them decades ago when they were teenagers — leading to calls for him to drop out of the race.
Moore, now 70, is the state’s former chief justice who was twice removed from his duties for defying federal courts over samesex marriage and the public display of the Ten Commandments.
One woman told the Washington Post that she was just 14 when Moore, then a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, initiated a sexual relationship in 1979.
Leigh Corfman, now 53, told the newspaper that Moore took her to his house, gave her alcohol and the two kissed. During a second encounter, he took off her clothes, touched her over her bra and panties and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear, she said.
“I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she told The Post.
Corfman said she was with her mother at a custody hearing when Moore first approached her and asked for her phone number.
Three other women say that Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18.
Wendy Miller said she was 14 and working as a Santa’s helper at a mall in Gadsden when Moore first approached her. Two years later, he began asking her out on dates, she said. The legal age of consent in Alabama is 16.
None say that the jurist physically forced them into any sexual contact.
Corfman said she felt like it was the right time to speak out about Moore after being approached by the Washington Post about rumors of Moore’s dalliances.
“I have prayed over this,” she said. “All I know is that I can’t sit back and let this continue, let him continue without the mask being removed.”
Moore called the report “garbage.”
“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” he said in a statement. “This garbage is the very definition of fake news.”
Moore beat Republican establishment-backed Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP primary in September to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The race included personal appearances from Trump, in support of Strange, and former White House strategist Stephen Bannon, backing Moore. Moore has called for homosexuality to be illegal and fueled the conspiracy theory behind former President Barack Obama’s birthplace. Earlier this week, he reportedly said “transgenders don’t have rights.”
He is facing Democrat Doug Jones in a Dec. 12 special election. Hours after the allegations emerged, Moore sent out a fund-raising email that read, “The ObamaClinton Machine’s liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I’ve EVER faced.”
“I believe you and I have a duty to stand up and fight back against the forces of evil waging an allout war on our conservative values,” he wrote. “I will NEVER GIVE UP the fight!”
President Trump, who has also been accused of sexual harassment, did not completely abandon Moore.
“The President believes we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case one from many years ago, to destroy a person’s life,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. “However, the President also believes that if these allegations are true, Judge Moore will do the right thing and step aside.”
Moore’s backers in the Bible Belt brushed off the accusations.
“There is nothing to see here,” Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler told the Washington Examiner. “Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.”