A retired police officer who worked juvenile cases in Gadsden, Alabama for 37 years said it was well known that Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore “liked young girls” decades ago, but her department never got an official complaint, so there “was really nothing we could do about it.”
“I didn’t realize it until some time later that when they said he liked young girls, I just thought he liked young ladies, you know, younger than him, maybe in their 20s,” Faye Gary told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Tuesday. “I had no idea, or we had no idea that we were talking about 14-year-olds. But we never got a complaint on it.”
She said the officers were “advised” that Moore had been suspended from the local mall because “he would hang around the young girls” who worked there and that it “got into a place of where they say he was harassing.” Police were also warned to keep an eye on Moore at sporting events and “make sure that, you know, he didn’t hang around the cheerleaders,” Gary said.
Police were on the lookout “every day” for a complaint to come in on Moore, she said, as his behavior was known “not only in our department, but in the courthouse too.”
Moore has been accused by multiple women of either pursing relationships or making inappropriate sexual advances toward them when they were teenagers and Moore was in his 30s. Moore has flatly denied all the allegations and has said the claims are just part of a political attack on his campaign by the media.
WATCH: Retired Alabama police officer Faye Gary discuss Roy Moore on #AMR https://t.co/frtHsrrBKW
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) November 21, 2017
Yep, I don’t much recall too many discussions of pedophilia or unwanted touching back in the seventies. It’s truly was a man’s world back then
Hell, I had no idea how many of my friend’s mothers were beaten or traumatized by their husbands either. Or that three of my female high school classmates were regularly assaulted by male relatives.
But I had my own suspicions, just that suspicions were not actionable back then.
I will say that I’m proud to have been raised by two small town families for which such behavior was anathema and the promises of punishment for such transgressions was held out as something quite severe.
Over the years I’ve reflected on how unusual my mother and father’s families were, and still are. I also reflect on how this rendered me incapable of believing that this kind of behavior existed in the families of my friends.
So, back to Roy Moore. So typical…others knew and put up what firewalls they could wherever and whenever they could. But even though so many knew they did nothing, nada, not squat to isolate him and bring this to a hard stop.
No, they supported his climb up the judicial ladder.
They’re as guilty, if not more than he is by being complicit and enabling his behaviors.
Public shaming is in order for those who are belatedly coming forward like former officer Faye Gary.
Does this mean Roy Moore will be the senator seeking to run Congress’s young intern program?
The word of a retired Police Officer, a First Responder, a Hero, someone we can trust and rely on, someone who tells the truth. What? The officer is a woman? Talking bad about the godly man Judge Roy Moore? Ignore her words. Then investigate her, and attack her character, her motives, her memory, her politics, her pets…
It’s getting so I feel like I need to take a shower each time I see a story about Roy Moore.
but if he was black, he’d still be in jail