https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ro ... eac08bf667Woman Says Alabama Senate Nominee Roy Moore Sexually Assaulted Her When She Was 14
A woman says GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 14.
Leigh Corfman, now 53, told The Washington Post in an article published Thursday that Moore, then a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, took off her shirt and removed his clothes in the 1979 incident. He touched her over her bra and led her hands to touch him over his underwear, she said.
“I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” Corfman told the paper. “Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.”
Three other women said Moore also made sexual advances to them when they were teenagers around the same time, according to the newspaper. Wendy Miller said she was working as a Santa’s helper at a mall when she was 14 when Moore first approached her. By the time she was 16, she said Moore was asking her out on dates.
The age of consent was and continues to be 16 in Alabama.
Moore, in a written statement to the Post, denied doing anything inappropriate.
“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore said.
A Moore spokesman called the accusations “garbage” and “fake news.”
“Judge Roy Moore has endured the most outlandish attacks on any candidate in the modern political arena, but this story in today’s Washington Post alleging sexual impropriety takes the cake,” campaign spokesman John Rogers told HuffPost in a statement. “National liberal organizations know their chosen candidate Doug Jones is in a death spiral, and this is their last ditch Hail Mary.
“This garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation,” Rogers added.
A special election for the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama vacated by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions takes place Dec. 12. Moore is up against Democrat Doug Jones.
Here's a link to the original WaPo article (very in-depth and detailed reporting)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... b95d337353
As long a Moore doesn't drop out of the race, (which given the fact that it's Roy Moore, I seriously doubt will happen) apparently there's no way at this point to remove him as the nominee, or invalidate votes cast for him:
http://whnt.com/2017/11/09/as-gop-lawma ... he-ballot/As GOP lawmakers discuss Roy Moore stepping aside, state election official says he can’t be removed from the ballot
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) – Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill tells WHNT News 19 Roy Moore’s name was already printed on Alabama’s ballot after the nominees were confirmed back in October. Merrill also pointed out many voters have already cast their ballot for Moore, considering absentee ballots were sent out October 15th. [The election is Dec. 12th]
This comes as prominent members of the US Senate and the Republican Party, from Mitch McConnell to Richard Shelby to John McCain, say Roy Moore should step aside if the allegations are true.
Merrill says, there’s nothing the Republican Party can do to remove Roy Moore from the ballot, but they can encourage a write-in campaign.
The only thing that could make votes no longer count for Moore would be for the candidate to remove himself from the race.
This comes as Roy Moore is coming under heavy fire, after the Washington Post published a story containing accusations of inappropriate sexual advances from Roy Moore against a 14-year-old girl. He was 32 at the time of the alleged incident.
The Post reports the encounter happened in early 1979. Roy Moore was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney.
Whether Moore remains in a two person race, or the GOP mounts a serious write-in campaign, (Most likely the current appointed incumbent, Luther Strange) it looks to me like the chances of the Dems picking up this seat just went way up...
