Earlier Thursday, The Washington Post reported that four women have accused Moore of pursuing relationships with them when they were teenagers and Moore was in his 30s.
The 14-year-old, Leigh Corfman said she met GOP candidate Roy Moore when he offered to watch her during her mother's child custody hearing. Moore, at the time, served as an assistant district attorney.
Corfman, now 53, said Moore asked for her phone number, and that the two met on two more occasions. On the first, the two kissed. During the second, she said Moore removed his clothes, took off her shirt and pants, and touched her over her bra and underpants, according to the account in the newspaper.
The 14-year-old, Leigh Corfman said she met GOP candidate Roy Moore when he offered to watch her during her mother's child custody hearing. Moore, at the time, served as an assistant district attorney.
Corfman, now 53, said Moore asked for her phone number, and that the two met on two more occasions. On the first, the two kissed. During the second, she said Moore removed his clothes, took off her shirt and pants, and touched her over her bra and underpants, according to the account in the newspaper.
Doubt this will have an effect on the Senate race
Update:
Defiant Moore denies ***ual misconduct, does not rule out that he may have dated teens as adult
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore declined Friday to rule out that he may have dated girls in their late teens when he was in his 30s, though he said he did not remember any such encounters and described such behavior as inappropriate.
"If I did, I'm not going to dispute these things, but I don't remember anything like that," Moore said on the Sean Hannity radio program, when asked if he dated 17- or 18-year-old girls at the time.
In the same interview, Moore denied outright the claim of Leigh Corfman that he had initiated ***ual encounters with her when she was 14. "I don't know Ms. Corfman from anybody," he said. "The allegations of ***ual misconduct with her are completely false."
He did recall knowing two other accusers, Gloria Thacker Deason and Debbie Wesson Gibson, as well as their parents. "I knew her as a friend," he said of Gibson, who has said that Moore asked her on a date when she was 17 after speaking at her high school. "If we did go out on dates, then we did, but I do not remember that," Moore said. When asked about Deason's claim that he provided her wine on dates when she was 18, Moore said: "In this county, it's a dry county. We never would have had liquor."
Alcohol sales began in Etowah County in 1972, years before the alleged encounter, and The Post confirmed that wine was for sale at the time at the pizzeria where Deason remembered Moore taking her when she was under the legal drinking age of 19.
The legal age of consent for ***ual activity in Alabama is 16, as it was at the time of these alleged encounters.
"After my return from the military, I dated a lot of young ladies," Moore told Hannity.
When Hannity asked Moore again if he could unequivocally say he never dated anybody in their late teens when he was 32, Moore said, "That's out of my customary behavior." Hannity said he would not want his 17- or 18-year-old daughter dating a 32-year-old. "I wouldn't either," said Moore.
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore declined Friday to rule out that he may have dated girls in their late teens when he was in his 30s, though he said he did not remember any such encounters and described such behavior as inappropriate.
"If I did, I'm not going to dispute these things, but I don't remember anything like that," Moore said on the Sean Hannity radio program, when asked if he dated 17- or 18-year-old girls at the time.
In the same interview, Moore denied outright the claim of Leigh Corfman that he had initiated ***ual encounters with her when she was 14. "I don't know Ms. Corfman from anybody," he said. "The allegations of ***ual misconduct with her are completely false."
He did recall knowing two other accusers, Gloria Thacker Deason and Debbie Wesson Gibson, as well as their parents. "I knew her as a friend," he said of Gibson, who has said that Moore asked her on a date when she was 17 after speaking at her high school. "If we did go out on dates, then we did, but I do not remember that," Moore said. When asked about Deason's claim that he provided her wine on dates when she was 18, Moore said: "In this county, it's a dry county. We never would have had liquor."
Alcohol sales began in Etowah County in 1972, years before the alleged encounter, and The Post confirmed that wine was for sale at the time at the pizzeria where Deason remembered Moore taking her when she was under the legal drinking age of 19.
The legal age of consent for ***ual activity in Alabama is 16, as it was at the time of these alleged encounters.
"After my return from the military, I dated a lot of young ladies," Moore told Hannity.
When Hannity asked Moore again if he could unequivocally say he never dated anybody in their late teens when he was 32, Moore said, "That's out of my customary behavior." Hannity said he would not want his 17- or 18-year-old daughter dating a 32-year-old. "I wouldn't either," said Moore.
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