Woman Who Says Roy Moore Sexually Abused Her as a Child Is Now Suing Him for Defamation

Demands Apology and Ban of Future Attacks

Last year in November Leigh Corfman told the world Roy Moore sexually abused her when she was just 14 years old. Moore, a veteran of Alabama politics for most of his life, went into action, and along with his political machine, attacked Corfman. 

Now she’s suing him and his campaign for defamation.

“Corfman is not seeking financial compensation beyond legal costs,” The Washington Post reports Thursday afternoon. “She is asking for a declaratory judgment of defamation, a public apology from Moore, and a court-enforced ban on him or his campaign publicly attacking her again. She said in a statement that the suit seeks ‘to do what I could not do as a 14-year-old — hold Mr. Moore and those who enable him accountable.'”

One month before Alabama’s special election in December, Corfman had told The Washington Post she was just 14 years old when Roy Moore, then 32, drove her to his home, removed her clothes and his clothes, touched her over her underwear and tried to get her to touch him over his. She says she told him she was uncomfortable and he drove her home.

AL.com reports the lawsuit, filed today, says Moore and his campaign “have defamed Ms. Corfman, repeatedly and in all forms of media, calling her a liar and questioning her motivation for publicly disclosing that Mr. Moore sexually abused her in 1979 when she was a 14-year-old high school freshman and he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney.”

Moore reportedly met Corfman when she was sitting with her mother outside the local courthouse awaiting 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,’” Corfman’s mother, Nancy Wells, told The Post. She added, “I thought, how nice for him to want to take care of my little girl.”

“Mr. Moore sexually abused me when I was only 14 years old,” Corfman told AL.com. “Then he and his campaign called me a liar and immoral when I publicly disclosed his misconduct. They ignored my requests to stop attacking me and to acknowledge the truth. Just last week, after the election, they filed a lawsuit in which they once again called me a liar.”

Two weeks after The Post’s initial report, The Alabama Political Reporter wrote that three of Roy Moore’s spokesmen claimed “Corfman had ‘pre-existing behavioral issues’ and that other specific details from Corfman and other accusers just don’t add up.”

The Post’s story in early November included accounts from three other women who said Moore pursued them as teenagers. It prompted a total of nine women to accuse Moore of sexual misconduct or attempting to date teenaged girls when he was in his 30’s.

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