Current Events > Woman shares new evidence of relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17, he 34

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/woman-shares-new-evidence-of-relationship-with-
roy-moore-when-she-was-17/2017/12/04/0c3d1cde-d903-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html

Debbie Wesson Gibson was in her attic hauling out boxes of Christmas decorations last week when she noticed a storage bin she said she had forgotten about. Inside was a scrapbook from her senior year of high school, and taped to a page titled Those Who Inspire was a graduation card.

Happy graduation Debbie, it read in slanted cursive handwriting. I wanted to give you this card myself. I know that youll be a success in anything you do. Roy.

The inscription, Gibson said, was written by Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican nominee for U.S. Senate who in recent days has repeatedly denied the accounts of five women who told The Washington Post that he pursued them when they were teenagers and he was an assistant district attorney in his 30s. Since those allegations were published last month, four more women have come forward to allege that Moore made unwanted sexual advances. The accounts in The Post included those of Leigh Corfman, who said she was 14 when Moore touched her sexually, and Gibson, who said that she publicly dated Moore when she was 17 and he was 34, a relationship she said she wore like a badge of honor until she began reevaluating it in light of the accounts of other women, and now, Moores own denials.

Shortly after the allegations first surfaced, Moore said in a radio interview with Sean Hannity that he did not know Corfman, but that he remembered Gibson as well as Gloria Thacker Deason, who had told The Post that she dated Moore when she was 18. He called each one a good girl, and said that he did not remember dating them.

But at two campaign events in recent days, Moore has backtracked.

At a Nov. 27 campaign event in the north Alabama town of Henagar, Moore said, The allegations are completely false. They are malicious. Specifically, I do not know any of these women.

At a Nov. 29 rally at a church in the south Alabama town of Theodore, Moore said, Let me state once again: I do not know any of these women, did not date any of these women and have not engaged in any sexual misconduct with anyone.

Gibson said that after finding the scrapbook, she was not sure whether to make it public given the threats she received after publication of the original story. Then she heard what Moore said last week, she said, and contacted The Post.

He called me a liar, said Gibson, who says she not only openly dated Moore when she was 17 but later joined him in passing out fliers during his campaign for circuit court judge in 1982 and exchanged Christmas cards with him over the years. Roy Moore made an egregious mistake to attack that one thing my integrity.

The Moore campaign did not respond to numerous requests for comment for this story.
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Gibson, 54, now lives in Delray Beach, Fla., is a registered Republican, and is the founder of a company that provides sign language interpretation. She said that despite requests from dozens of media outlets, she had very carefully said absolutely nothing after her account was first published in The Post due to a barrage of threatening hate mail she received, prompting her to notify her local police department. She and the other women have been accused by Moores surrogates of lying, or being paid to spread false stories, or being part of a larger political conspiracy to defeat Moore.

Then she found the scrapbook and the graduation card with the slanted, cursive handwriting, which she said immediately reminded her of another woman, Beverly Young Nelson, who had come forward after the Post story was published.

I just couldnt imagine him doing something like that, Gibson said. And then when I saw the interview from Beverly, and I saw his handwriting in her yearbook, my heart just sank."

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Note: 17 is (I believe) legal in Alabama, but the fact that he denies knowing her stretches credulity in light of this card. Decide for yourself why Roy Moore seems to be lying about this matter.
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to the surprise of nobody
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Antifar posted...

Note: 17 is (I believe) legal in Alabama, but the fact that he denies knowing her stretches credulity in light of this card. Decide for yourself why Roy Moore seems to be lying about this matter.

If it's legal, why lie? Fuck what people think.
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He's in full denial mode. He's a kid that's been caught red-handed but is still going "No no no"

Antifar posted...

Note: 17 is (I believe) legal in Alabama, but the fact that he denies knowing her stretches credulity in light of this card. Decide for yourself why Roy Moore seems to be lying about this matter.

If he's lying about this, then maybe the other allegations are true as well. I haven't reviewed all of the evidence, so I'm not certain as to who's telling the truth.
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Behaviorism posted...

If it's legal, why lie? Fuck what people think.

The problem from his point of view (I can only assume) is that if he admits to dating this 17 year old, the idea of him pursuing girls only slightly younger than that appears more plausible.
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antfair posted...

she publicly dated Moore when she was 17 and he was 34

antfair posted...

as well as Gloria Thacker Deason, who had told The Post that she dated Moore when she was 18

No problems here if true.

antfair posted...

included those of Leigh Corfman, who said she was 14 when Moore touched her sexually

Problem if true. The only one worth focusing on.

BlkPopeIseem posted...

Problem if true. The only one worth focusing on.

Also Beverly Young Nelson, who accused Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16

In an emotional news conference with the attorney Gloria Allred, Nelson accused Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 16, and produced what she said was her high school yearbook with an inscription to her from Moore.

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The ages were not the only problem. He pursued several of them despite their refusing his advances, and physically assaulted at least one and then used his authority as an ADA to blackmail her.
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actually it's ephebophilia
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Antifar posted...

Behaviorism posted...

If it's legal, why lie? Fuck what people think.

The problem from his point of view (I can only assume) is that if he admits to dating this 17 year old, the idea of him pursuing girls only slightly younger than that appears more plausible.

The guy is a lowlife, but slipper slope can apply to anything
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This dude is creepy AF hanging around high schools looking for girls
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CableZL posted...

This dude is creepy AF hanging around high schools looking for girls

And malls.
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BlkPopeIseem posted...

antfair posted...

she publicly dated Moore when she was 17 and he was 34

antfair posted...

as well as Gloria Thacker Deason, who had told The Post that she dated Moore when she was 18

No problems here if true.

antfair posted...

included those of Leigh Corfman, who said she was 14 when Moore touched her sexually

Problem if true. The only one worth focusing on.

the thing is, if he cops to the first two - or they are proved, then it indicates that he WAS hanging around high schoolers trying to get in their pants. which does not look good when a 14 year old is accusing you of molesting her
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BLAKUboy posted...

CableZL posted...

This dude is creepy AF hanging around high schools looking for girls

And malls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmPGrZDIAc
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Wait I left out this part

As she flipped through the scrapbook last week, Gibson said, she realized it contained other indications of her relationship with Moore, which she says began in March 1981, after he came to speak to her high school civics class.

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Antifar posted...

Wait I left out this part

As she flipped through the scrapbook last week, Gibson said, she realized it contained other indications of her relationship with Moore, which she says began in March 1981, after he came to speak to her high school civics class.

That's probably not why he came to the school, but just a reason to be there
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