It reads like pulp fiction. But according to The New Yorker, back in the eighties, as local DA in his early thirties, Roy Moore was banned from his hometown mall because of cruising the facility for teenage girls.
From Charles Bethea …
This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political figure in the state—who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees.
This of course comes after a fifth women stepped forward this afternoon to accuse Moore of sexual misconduct. Beverly Young Nelson accused Moore of assaulting her when she was 16 years old.
Al.com now has similar reporting with multiple sources.
Usry, who was a teenager at the time, remembers seeing Moore at the mall often.
“He would go and flirt with all the young girls,” he said. “It’d seem like every Friday or Saturday night (you’d see him) walking around the mall, like the kids did.”
