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Moore took away ‘trust’: vic

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ONE OF THE FIRST women to accuse Roy Moore of sexual misconduct when she was just 14 years old says the embattled Senate candidate took away her innocence — scarring her for decades.

“I was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adult’s world,” Leigh Corfman said Monday on NBC’s “Today.” “And he was 32 years old.”

Corfman previously said Moore approached her at an Alabama courthouse in 1979, and later took her to his home. There, he fondled the teenager after she had to strip down to her underwear, she said.

“It took away a lot of the specialnes­s of a lot of interactio­ns with men,” Corfman said. “It took some trust away.” A FORMER newsletter writer for Lena Dunham accused the “Girls” creator of “hipster racism” in slamming her for backing a man hit with a rape accusation.

Zinzi Clemmons, who worked on Dunham’s Lenny Letter, announced in a social media post that she had quit her job with the HBO star, out of disgust with Dunham’s defense of a male executive producer accused of rape.

Corfman said the future Republican pol would pick her up around the corner from her Gadsden, Ala., home without her mother’s knowledge.

“I wouldn’t exactly call it a date. I would call it a ‘meet,’ ” Corfman said Monday. “At 14, I was not dating. At 14, I was not able to make those kinds of choices.”

Moore, who is running to fill the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has denied he committed the act, or of knowing the accuser.

At least seven other women have accused Moore of sexual misconduct when they were teens in the late 1970s.

Dunham faced a torrent of criticism after posting a statement defending Murray Miller and suggested that his accuser, actress Aurora Perrineau, lied.

Clemmons, who had mutual friends with Dunham in college, said the writer’s clique is racist.

“I’d call their strain ‘hipster racism,’ ’’ Clemmons wrote.

She also urged other writers similarly “outraged” by Dunham to quit, too.

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