“I just kind of said, ‘Do you know how old I am?’…Â And he said, ‘Yeah. I go out with girls your age all the time.'”
Two more women have stepped forward to accuse Roy Moore of inappropriate behavior. One says he grabbed her buttocks when she was in his law office dealing with a child custody case. She says he was married at the time. The other says he asked her out when she was just 17, and when rebuffed she says he told her, “I go out with girls your age all the time.”
AL.com broke the news Wednesday afternoon, minutes after an attorney for Moore concluded a press event demanding attorney Gloria Allred hand over the yearbook a woman says Moore signed just one week before he tried to rape her. She was 16 at the time.
Tina Johnson tells AL.com that “in the fall of 1991 she sat in the law office of then-attorney Roy Moore.”
A few excerpts:
Almost from the moment she walked in to Moore’s office, Johnson said, Moore began flirting with her.
“He kept commenting on my looks, telling me how pretty I was, how nice I looked,” recalled Johnson. “He was saying that my eyes were beautiful.”
At one point during the meeting, she said, Moore came around the desk and sat on the front of it, just inches from her. He was so close, she said, she could smell his breath.
After her mother walked through the door first, she said, Moore came up behind her.
It was at that point, she recalled, he grabbed her buttocks.
“He didn’t pinch it; he grabbed it,” said Johnson. She was so surprised she didn’t say anything. She didn’t tell her mother.
Another woman, Kelly Harrison Thorp, tells AL.com in 1982 she was a 17-year old high school senior working at Red Lobster when Moore hit on her.
“He was a public figure in this small town,” she said of Moore, who at the time was in his early 30s and the deputy district attorney for Etowah County. Later that year he would mount an unsuccessful campaign for circuit court judge.
Thorp said Moore asked her if she’d go out with him sometime.
“I just kind of said, ‘Do you know how old I am?'” she recalled.
“And he said, ‘Yeah. I go out with girls your age all the time.'”
Thorp told the newspaper she didn’t think she would be believed if she stepped forward. The Moore campaign’s responses, as well as those of many in Alabama, are a testament to that belief.
“Everybody knew it wouldn’t matter,” she said, “that he would get elected anyway because his supporters are never going to believe anything bad about him.”
She added:
“It’s because somebody asked,” she said. “If anybody had asked, we would have told it. No one asked.”Â
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