In November , multiple women made allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore , a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the Republican nominee in the U. Senate special election scheduled for the following month. Three women alleged that he had sexually assaulted them, two of whom were minors at the time while Moore was then in his 30s. Moore denied the allegations of sexual assault. On November 10, he acknowledged having known two of the women.
Two weeks later, he said that he did "not know any of these women," and he "did not date any of these women" and had "not engaged in any sexual misconduct with anyone". President Donald Trump , however, endorsed Moore and accepted his denials. One of the accusers, Leigh Corfman, filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore in January because he had said that her accusation was "false and malicious".
Moore filed a defamation suit against Corfman and four others in April On November 9, , The Washington Post reported that Leigh Corfman alleged that Moore had initiated a sexual encounter with her in , when she was 14 and he was 32 years old.
At the time he was in his 30s and working as an assistant district attorney. He offered to sit with Corfman in the hallway while her mother went into a courtroom to testify. They later went on two dates: each time he picked her up around the corner from her house and drove her to his house.
The first time he "told her how pretty she was and kissed her". Such sexual contact between Moore and a year-old would have been a felony under Alabama law, and punishable by up to ten years in prison. In January , Corfman filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore and against his Senate campaign, because he had said that her accusation was "false and malicious".
