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WhiskeyGrinder

(22,355 posts)
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 02:00 PM Nov 2017

Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32 [View all]

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

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 don’t want her to go in there and hear all that. I’ll stay out here with her,’ ” says Corfman’s 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.



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Won't Matter To His Supporters. Still Likely To Win That Seat. TheMastersNemesis Nov 2017 #1
Yes this is sadly true. Initech Nov 2017 #24
Uh oh gratuitous Nov 2017 #2
He called it "fake news" from the "National Democrat Party," so there you go. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #3
Videos of him doing it wouldnt matter AT ALL. If he says fake news, then fake news it is. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #26
If this is true, there are others. There always are. HopeAgain Nov 2017 #4
From the article: WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #6
2 of them went with him. grantcart Nov 2017 #30
Which goes to show he shouldn't have been propositioning in the first place. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #31
I wonder if others will come forward. Ilsa Nov 2017 #5
From the article: WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #7
I cannot express how creeped out I am by this. Coventina Nov 2017 #8
Doubt this will change even one mind of one of his supporters. No matter how egregious his conduct SweetieD Nov 2017 #9
But if it changes enough minds of swing voters or those who haven't decidedyet. Kaleva Nov 2017 #11
The real shame is the women down there that will vote for him Thrill Nov 2017 #17
sexual harassment and abuse only matter if you liberal/Dem mamas Nov 2017 #10
"especially the evangelicals" FiveGoodMen Nov 2017 #27
Cue the supporters shrieking: "WHY DID SHE WAIT TO COME FORWARD??!" mreilly Nov 2017 #12
They didn't come forward sarah FAILIN Nov 2017 #22
Waste of time... brooklynite Nov 2017 #13
Shame on you. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #15
...in which case it should have brought up during the runoff... brooklynite Nov 2017 #16
THe primary and runoff were before Weinstein right? crazycatlady Nov 2017 #18
Why would those times have been better? WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #20
The fact that this came up now tells me it is tied to the election... brooklynite Nov 2017 #23
What would we do without you. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #25
K&R Solly Mack Nov 2017 #14
Obviously his next step is POTUS. sarah FAILIN Nov 2017 #19
The amount of people who are commenting about how the timing could have been better or it's no big WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #21
A certain percentage of Republicans will like him even more because of this Saboburns Nov 2017 #28
he does like "younger women" handmade34 Nov 2017 #29
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