MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A woman who says failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her when she was 14 filed a defamation lawsuit Moore and his campaign on Thursday.
Leigh Corfman said Moore and his campaign defamed her and made false statements as they denied the accusations in the midst of the U.S. Senate race in Alabama. The lawsuit, filed in Montgomery Circuit Court, asks Moore to publicly apologize.
“Mr. Moore sexually abused me when I was only 14 years old. Then he and his campaign called me a liar and immoral when I publicly disclosed his misconduct,” Corfman said in a statement. “By this lawsuit, I seek to do what I could not do as a 14-year-old — hold Mr. Moore and those who enable him accountable.”
Corfman said she was a teen when Moore, then a 32-year-old assistant district attorney, touched her sexually during an encounter. Moore has denied the allegations.
Corfman was one of several women who said Moore pursued them when they were teenagers.
Corfman and her mother have said that Moore first approached her as she waited outside a custody hearing at the Etowah County courthouse. Corfman said she later arranged to meet Moore and that he took her to his home and initiated the encounter. Corfman said he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes except for his underwear before touching her over her bra and underpants.
Efforts to immediately reach Moore for comment were unsuccessful, and a text message to Kayla Moore, Moore’s wife, was not immediately returned.
His campaign issued a statement saying, “We look forward to transparently discussing these matters in a court of law.”
Moore’s campaign was roiled by the accusations as he sought the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore, a Republican, lost the race to Doug Jones, the first Alabama Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 25 years.
How can it be that a man who was a District Attorney and a Judge not understand that flapping your jaws has consequences? Does he expect that he won’t lose, badly, in court? What a jack-ass.
He’s going to get his day in court, and it isn’t going to be pretty, (I hope).
Hope the plaintiff wins; she’ll not get a penny in settlement, but I hope she prevails.
If she doesn’t prevail, then drumpf has no hope of suing Bannon because what Moore did is a whole lot worse than what Bannon said about drumpf.
I would love to see what his stats were while ADA and DA of Etowah County GA. We know what he was like a Chief Justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, but how good a lawyer was he, because we’ve seen some peculiar lawyers come out of AL.
Au contraire. Pedo-Roy’s net worth is about $2 million. She’ll get something. (Remember, we’ve already seen the quality of Moore’s representation in Trenton “Banned from the mall? Give me a call!” Garmon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvotVW_jshA).
What’s going to be sweet though is when he’s deposed, on video, which can be played in court whether he chooses to testify or not. Juxtaposed to the Word of Moore will be a dozen or so corroborating witnesses, albeit secondhand, plus the other women who accused him — firsthand. A highlight, of course, will be other Asst. DA at the time, a woman, who said Pedo-Roy’s peccadillo was common knowledge in the courthouse and considered creepy by everyone … 'cept Roy, of course.