Washington Post: Woman Says Roy Moore Had a Sexual Encounter With Her When She Was 14, He Was 32

While in His 30’s Roy Moore Pursued at Least Four Young Girls, Aged 14 to 18, According to the Washington Post

An Alabama woman is charging “Judge” Roy Moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14-year old girl, according to a a bombshell report in The Washington Post. Moore would have been 32-years old at the time. The Post says its “account is based on interviews with more than 30 people who said they knew Moore between 1977 and 1982, when he served as an assistant district attorney for Etowah County in northern Alabama, where he grew up.”

Moore is the Republican nominee in an Alabama special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions. President Trump has endorsed Moore.

The Post states that in 1979, the woman says, Moore approached a mother with her young daughter who were sitting outside an Alabama courthouse. He convinced the mother he would watch after her 14-year old girl, Leigh Corfman, while she attended 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. 

The Post’s story continues:

She remembers that Moore kissed her, that he took off her pants and shirt, and that he touched her through her bra and underpants. She says that he guided her hand to his underwear and that she yanked her hand back.

“I wasn’t ready for that — I had never put my hand on a man’s penis, much less an erect one,” Corfman says. 

She remembers thinking, “I don’t want to do this” and “I need to get out of here.” She says that she got dressed and asked Moore to take her home, and that he did. 

The legal age of consent in Alabama, then and now, is 16. Under Alabama law in 1979, and today, a person who is at least 19 years old who has sexual contact with someone between 12 and 16 years old has committed sexual abuse in the second degree. Sexual contact is defined as touching of sexual or intimate parts. The crime is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. 

The law then and now also includes a section on enticing a child younger than 16 to enter a home with the purpose of proposing sexual intercourse or fondling of sexual and genital parts. That is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. 

Other women told The Post of their encounters with Moore when they were young.

Aside from Corfman, three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s, episodes they say they found flattering at the time, but troubling as they got older. None of the women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.

Corfman was the youngest of the four women, and “is the only one who says she had sexual contact with Moore that went beyond kissing. She says they did not have intercourse,” The Post reports.

In a written statement, Moore denied the allegations.

“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore, now 70, said.

Before The Post published its report Steve Bannon’s Breitbart website published an article that appears to offer a defense via  Moore’s responses. Bannon, President Trump’s former White House chief strategist, has endorsed Moore.

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