Again, it doesn't sound like people did "stay quiet." It was an open secret, according to a lot of people. But Roy Moore was a political up-and-comer and none of the victims apparently wanted to take on a member of the legal community who had political support. (Wonder why?) And it wasn't until an out-of-town newspaper came down that anyone apparently did a thorough investigation of the man--the local papers did not, or if any of the victims approached them, they chose not to pick up on it. (Just like the Boston papers did not aggressively go after the priest scandal when it first came to their attention, as depicted in Spotlight.) And that didn't happen until he was the leading contender for a national office. This isn't rocket science. |
Goodness. Have you never paid any attention to all the molestation stories about priests that have come out in the past decade? These stories stayed "quiet" for decades, too, except in rumor here and there ("stay away from Father Ted" etc.) Ask your friends who among them has been molested or sexually harassed/assaulted and see how many of them prosecuted their abusers. |
He was a DA and then a judge and then Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Besides, look at all the people in the entertainment industry finally going public with their decades-old abuse and assault claims. |
I don't know, because whenever they come forward, people spit Tawana Brawley's name at them? |
Here's your answer, from the victim herself: "Corfman, 53, who works as a customer service representative at a payday loan business, says she has voted for Republicans in the past three presidential elections, including for Donald Trump in 2016. She says she thought of confronting Moore personally for years, and almost came forward publicly during his first campaign for state Supreme Court in 2000, but decided against it. Her two children were still in school then and she worried about how it would affect them. She also was concerned that her background — three divorces and a messy financial history — might undermine her credibility." http://www.gadsdentimes.com/news/20171109/woman-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14 |
The reputation of the Alabama GOP was already in the crapper just waiting to be flushed. Just in the past year or so, the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches all were removed for an extramarital affair with a staffer (Governor Bentley), a 4-year prison sentence for corruption (speaker of the Alabama house Hubbard), and failure to follow federal law (Moore) respectively. And that's before all of the charges that Sessions may have coming. |
| Alabama had a reputation that could go lower than it was? |
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I feel you did call me a liar. I feel deleting my posts about it were because you thought I was lying and simply blaming a Pakistani man who thought it was ok due to his religion. Since I feel that way, it MUST be true, right? I am not attacking these women. I'm stating fact. One of the women, did indeed, work for Hillary and for Biden, and volunteered for the opposition. She is also a rabid activist progressive. That calls into question her motive for coming forward. And that also calls into question, how the reporter came upon her story and whether or not we can believe it as-written. I am a born skeptic and this pegs my 'hinky' meter. If Moore does not step down, then the Republicans are going to take him down. How's that going to look to conservatives? |
| Did any of you think that maybe these women support democrats and left leaning policies because of their experiences as teenagers? |
| Isn't it interesting how the exact same people who spent countless hours trying to conjure up an imaginary pizza-based secret pedophilia code despite zero witnesses, zero accusers, zero other evidence are now so quick to dismiss and deny a story about a pedophile which has multiple accusers and at least 30 actual sources? |
Population of 47,000 circa 1979. |
Were these women pursuing careers in politics? Did they fear Moore could deny them entry to law school? |
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Fourteen year old girl sitting alone in courthouse. A 32 year old man sits down beside her and asks her name and for her telephone number. He calls and speaks with her while she is in her room. He picks her up for a date around the corner from her home. Nope, nothing unusual or suspicious here.
Second degree sexual abuse is a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison. Moore would have known that. He then moves on to walking around the mall and asking 16 year olds out in dates. But his memory gets a but fuzzy here. |