Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore continues to insist he never knew a trio of women who accused him of sexual assault, claiming in a sworn affidavit that a lie-detector test has proven his innocence.
A total of nine women leveled accusations at the former state Supreme Court judge during a contentious campaign that saw a rare Democratic win in a deep-red state.
Six of those women accused Moore of dating them – or seeking to – when they were teenagers and he was a thirty-something prosecutor.
But the three others lobbed allegations or groping and molestation, bombshell claims that turned Moore into a social pariah and kept him from actively campaigning during the race’s final weeks.
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Roy Moore, shown arriving to vote Dec. 12 on his horse Sassy, is demanding a new election after losing a U.S. Senate seat to Doug Jones – claiming in an affidavit that he’s passed a polygraph test clearing him of sexual misconduct against three female accusers
Moore has never wavered from professing his innocence and now claims a polygraph examiner has cleared him – but he didn’t take the test before Election Day when it counted
The first and most sensational claim came from 53-year-old Leigh Corfman, who told The Washington Post that in 1979 Moore partially undressed both of them, touched her over her underwear and put her hand on his genitals.
At the time she was just 14, and he was 32.
Corfman said last month on the ‘Today’ show that Moore had taken her to his home on two occasions.
‘He basically laid out some blankets on the floor of his living room and proceed to – seduce me, I guess you would say,’ she said.
‘And during the course of that, he removed my clothing. He left the room and came back in, wearing his white underwear. And he touched me over my clothing, what was left of it. And he tried to get me to touch him, as well.
Moore submitted this affidavit with his lawsuit on Thursday in an Alabama court, seeking to stop the state from certifying his defeat at the hands of Democrat Doug Jones
Another accuser, Beverly Young Nelson, claimed Moore, still in his 30s, groped her and tried to force her to perform oral sex on him in his car when she was 16.
She presented a high school yearbook inscription, purportedly written by Moore, as proof that he was fond of her at the time.
Leigh Corfman, pictured as a teenage girl, accused Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was 14 and he was 32
Nelson later conceded that she personally added a small portion of the words written on the page – a date and location – an admission that energized Moore’s backers, including President Donald Trump.
A third woman, Tina Johnson, alleged Moore left her ‘scarred for life’ by asking her on a date and then groping her in his office decades ago when she was 28.
Following a meeting about her son’s jail custody, Johnson claimed, ‘he just grabbed my behind. I mean, forcefully grabbed it. And I didn’t even react, I just walked out. I was so ashamed.’
Moore lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones by about 21,000 votes out of 1.3 million cast. He challenged the result in an Alabama court on Thursday, hours before Jones was scheduled to be certified as the victor.
Moore ‘has successfully completed a polygraph test confirming that the representations of misconduct made against him during the campaign are completely false,’ according to the lawsuit.
He has never wavered from insisting on his innocence, but also never took the step of insisting on a polygraph test before the December 12 special election.
Beverly Young Nelson repeatedly cited a high school yearbook inscription as proof that Roy Moore pursued her when she was 16; Nelson claimed he groped her in his car and tried to force her to perform a sex act on him
Moore lost his U.S. Senate election after being accused of child molestation and other sexual abuse; he’s now challenging the result and suing for a new contest
Democrat Doug Jones is expected to be certified as the winner on Thursday and he will be sworn in as a U.S. senator on January 3
On Wednesday the defeated pol swore out an affidavit claiming that he finally took that step ‘within days’ of his defeat.
‘That examination concerned allegations of sexual misconduct made against me during the last month of the campaign by Leigh Corfman, Beverly Nelson, and Tina Johnson for “alleged” conduct approximately 30-40 years ago,’ according to Moore.
‘As I had expected, the results of the examination reflected that I did not know, nor had I ever had any sexual contact with, any of these individuals.’
The centerpiece of Moore’s legal complaint is a series of allegations of voter fraud, based on a YouTube video showing an unnamed Jones supporter claiming that a liberal ‘fellowship’ had brought large numbers of people from outside Alabama to cast presumably illegal votes.
That claim is bolstered by an affidavit from a longtime poll observer who said she saw a flood of Georgia and Tennessee driver’s licenses presented as voter IDs.
The lawsuit cites ‘irregularities in 20 precincts’ of the state’s populous Jefferson County – enough to swing the election to Moore.
The Christian conservative was expected to cruise to victory until several women alleged that he assaulted, molested or pursued them when they were teenagers, including sexually touching one who was 14 years old at the time.
Moore never conceded the race to Jones, and immediately started fundraising after Election Day to support his legal challenge.