Woman: Roy Moore Made Sexual Advance When I Was 14

'Washington Post' details allegations against Alabama Senate candidate
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 9, 2017 1:03 PM CST
Woman: Roy Moore Made Sexual Advance When I Was 14
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.   (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

The latest high-profile figure accused of sexual misconduct is a politician who has staked his career on morality. The Washington Post is out with a detailed report about Alabama's Roy Moore, the state's former supreme court justice who is now running for the US Senate. A woman who is now 53 says Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was just 14 and he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. Leigh Corfman says that they did not have intercourse, but that Moore drove her to his home, stripped down to his underwear, removed her pants and shirt, and touched her through her bra and underpants. She says that when he began guiding her hand toward his underwear, she recoiled, got dressed, and asked to leave, at which point he drove her home. Moore categorically denies the allegations as "fake news" drummed up by Democrats.

The Post also talks to three other women who say that Moore asked them out on dates, sometimes successfully, when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s and still single. The account given by Corfman is the only one that advances beyond kissing. “I wasn’t ready for that," Corfman says of Moore's attempt to guide her hand. "I had never put my hand on a man’s penis, much less an erect one." She says she first met Moore outside a courtroom, when he approached her and her mother and offered to sit with Corfman while her mom went inside for a custody hearing. In his later career, Moore would twice be removed from his chief justice post for taking stands against gay marriage and his refusal to remove a 10 Commandments plaque. Read the full Post investigation, based on interviews with more than 30 people, here. (More Roy Moore stories.)

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