Politics: Woman claims that controversial GOP Senate candidate initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 years old

Roy Moore, a GOP Senate candidate from Alabama, has been accused of sexual misconduct with a then-14-year-old girl.

• Roy Moore, a GOP Senate candidate from Alabama, has been accused of sexual misconduct with a then-14-year-old girl.
• Other women also accused Moore of pursuing them when they were teenagers.

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A woman said that when she was 14 years old, Roy Moore, then 32 and now a candidate for Senate in Alabama, initiated a sexual encounter with her.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that Moore invited Leigh Corfman to his home when she was a teenager, took off her clothes, and encouraged her to touch him.

Corfman said she first met Moore outside an Alabama courtroom in 1979. She was reportedly sitting with her mother when Moore struck up a conversation and offered to sit with her while her mother attended a hearing.

Moore then got her phone number and called her days later, Corfman said. On two separate occasions, Moore reportedly picked up Corfman around the corner from her house and drove her to his house in the woods. On the second occasion, Corfman said, Moore removed her clothes and touched her.

"I wanted it over with — I wanted out," she said she remembers thinking. "Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over."

Additionally, three women interviewed by The Post said Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18, though he did not engage in sexual conduct with any of them.

Moore denied the allegations, saying the charges were a "desperate political attack by the national Democrat Party and The Washington Post."

The former Alabama supreme court judge is the current Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama.

Roy Moore, a GOP Senate candidate from Alabama, has been accused of sexual misconduct with a then-14-year-old girl. Read Full Story