There is no indication the fire which destroyed the home of a woman who accused former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct had anything to do with the allegations, authorities say.
Moore accuser Tina Johnson of Gadsden, Alabama, lost her home Wednesday in a fire that’s under investigation by arson specialists in Etowah County.
A statement from the sheriff’s office says authorities are speaking to a person of interest about the fire.
The statement says investigators don’t believe the fire is linked to Moore or the allegations against him.
This is what remains of Tina Johnson’s home in Gadsden, Alabama, after a suspected arson attack. Johnson spoke out against Roy Moore in November to claim he sexually assaulted her in his office in 1991
The fire destroyed the home on Wednesday. Neither Johnson nor any member of her family was inside at the time
Tina Johnson (seen in an interview in November) came forward last year to allege misconduct against Moore which she said happened in 1991
On Friday, Johnson told AL.com she had lost everything in the fire.
‘I am devastated, just devastated. We have just the clothes on our backs,’ she said.
Police had previously said they had identified a suspect who is known in the area for being drunk and misbehaved. Cops have not released his name.
On Tuesday morning, residents said they saw the man walking around the back of the home.
He asked one woman if he thought it would burn down. No arrests have yet been made.
In November, Johnson gave a detailed description of how Moore allegedly molested her in his office in Gagsden in the 1990s when she went to him for his legal expertise during a custody battle over her son.
Her mother had accompanied her to the meeting but it did not stop Moore from ‘grabbing’ her buttocks as she left, she claimed.
‘He didn’t pinch it; he grabbed it,’ she said at the time.
Moore (seen above with his wife during his failed senate campaign) denied Johnson’s allegations
At the start of the meeting, Moore remarked on how ‘pretty’ she was and made her feel uncomfortable, she said.
Johnson spoke out along with other women in the hope of blocking him from taking office.
Despite being backed wholeheartedly by President Trump throughout his campaign and dismissing the allegations against him as false, Moore could not overcome them.
He lost the special election to Democrat Doug Jones on December 12, turning Alabama blue from red for the first time in 25 years.