Did you know that Roy Moore under Alabama law could have been convicted of having sex with a 14 year old which is sexual abuse in the second degree?

Did you know that Leigh Corfman, in 1979, when she was about 14 an older man approached her outside a courtroom in Etowah County, Ala, She was sitting on a wooden bench with her mother, they both recall, when the man introduced himself as Roy Moore?

left, in a photo from 1979, when she was about 14. At right, from top,

Did you know that in 1979 Moore — now the Republican nominee in Alabama for a U.S. Senate seat — was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney?

 

Did you know that Moore aside from Corfman, had 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?

Did you know that of the four women, the youngest at the time was Corfman, who is the only one who says she had sexual contact with Moore that went beyond kissing?


Did you know that Moore said “These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign?”

Did you know that Moore is now 70?


Did you know that 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 older than 12 and younger than 15 has committed sexual abuse in the second degree?

Did you know that Roy Moore under Alabama law could have been convicted of having sex with a 14 year old which is sexual abuse in the second degree?

Did you know that sexual contact is defined as touching of sexual or intimate parts?

Did you know that sexual contact is a misdemeanor crime punishable by up to one year in jail?

Did you know that 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?
 
Did you know that in Alabama, the statute of limitations for bringing felony charges involving sexual abuse of a minor in 1979 would have run out three years later, and the time frame for filing a civil complaint would have ended when the alleged victim turned 21, according to Child USA, a nonprofit research and advocacy group at the University of Pennsylvania?

Did you know that three other women who spoke to The Post say that Moore asked them on dates when they were between 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s?

Gloria Thacker Deason when she was about 18.

Did you know that Gloria Thacker Deason says she was 18 and Moore was 32 when they met in 1979 at the Gadsden Mall, where she worked at the jewelry counter of a department store called Pizitz?

Did you know that Deason, who is now 57, said that when she was dating Moore that their physical relationship did not go further than kissing and hugging?

May 1979, after she and Moore started dating.

Wendy Miller around the time she was 16

Did you know that Wendy Miller says that when Moore approached her she was 16?

Did you know that Miller says that Moore’s face was familiar because she had first met him two years before, when she was 14, dressed as an elf and working as a Santa’s helper at the mall?

Did you know that Wendy Miller mother, Martha Brackett, says she refused to grant Moore permission to date her 16-year-old daughter. her ,mother kept saying ‘You’re too old for her . . . let’s not rob the cradle?

Debbie Wesson Gibson when she was about 17

Did you know that Debbie Wesson Gibson says that she was 17 in the spring of 1981 when Moore spoke to her Etowah High School civics class he asked her out?

 she asked her mother what she would say if she wanted to date a 34-year-old man. Gibson says her mother asked her who the man was, and when Gibson said “Roy Moore,” her mother said, “I’d say you were the luckiest girl in the world.”
Among locals in Gadsden, a town of about 47,000 back then, Moore “had this godlike, almost deity status — he was a hometown boy made good,” Gibson says, “West Point and so forth.”
Did you know that Gibson says that they dated for two to three months, and that he took her to his house, read her poetry and played his guitar. She says he kissed her once in his bedroom and once by the pool at a local country club although nothing bad happened?

Did you know that Moore opened his private law practice. In 1985, at age 38, he married Kayla Kisor, who was 24 and they are still married?

Did you know that in 1992, he became a circuit court judge and hung his wooden Ten Commandments plaque in his courtroom?

Ten Commandments monument

Did you know that Moore in 2000, he was elected chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, and he soon installed a 5,280-pound granite Ten Commandments monument in the judicial building?

Did you know that in 2003, he was dismissed from the bench for ignoring a federal court order to remove the monument, and became known nationally as “The Ten Commandments Judge?”

Did you know that Moore was again elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2012, and was again dismissed for ignoring a judicial order, this time for instructing probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples?

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