With the Alabama special election to fill Jeff Sessions’ seat a mere month away, sexual misconduct allegations have, quite conveniently, surfaced against GOP hopeful Roy Moore (shown). Judge Moore, 70, an anti-establishment candidate despised by swamp-creature Democrats andRepublicans, is said to have courted age-of-consent teen girls in Alabama when in his early 30s. In addition, he’s accused of actual sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old girl during the same period.
In three of the four stories, Moore is not accused of having done anything illegal. They involve three women who say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 (Alabama’s age of consent was and is 16). The contact never amounted to more than hugging and kissing, and, as the Washington Post reports, “None of the three women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.”
In fact, when one of the women, Debbie Wesson Gibson, 17 when Moore allegedly approached her, asked her mother what she would say about Debbie dating the 34-year-old Moore, her mother replied, “I’d say you were the luckiest girl in the world,” the Postrelates. After all, Moore at the time was a hero in his relatively small home town of Gadsden, having graduated from West Point; served in Vietnam; and, during the relevant period, 1977-’82, being assistant district attorney for Etowah County in northern Alabama.
This attitude apparently wasn’t uncommon. Gloria Thacker Deason, 18 when she allegedly dated Moore, said that her mother allowed her to stay out past her 10:30 curfew with him. “She just felt like I would be safe with him.… She thought he was good husband material,” the Post quotes her as saying.
And Moore apparently was seeking a prospective wife. Note that the woman he ultimately wedded, Kayla (née Kisor), is 14 years younger than the Senate hopeful. They’ve been happily married for 32 years.
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