Good to see reputable source followups that helps disburse the Judge Moore lynch mob. Actually even he had done most the stuff he’s been accused of he would still be legal because these accusers were considered of consenting age. Even the 14 year old which at that time was 12.
For that to be ignored by the media reporting of this and present his encounters because of their ages as legally questionable resulting in protestors accusing Moore of being a pedophile which was I believe the intention of doing so.
And inexcusable
...encounters because of their ages as legally questionable resulting in protestors accusing Moore of being a pedophile which was I believe the intention of doing so.
And inexcusable
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As someone who was once a 14-year-old girl, knew lots of other fourteen-year-old girls and later in life observed the 14-year-old daughters of friends:
Besides lacking judgement and experience, girls this age who have passed puberty, briefly and erroneously think the possession of secondary sexual characteristics gives them power over men. They frequently and ineptly attempt to wield this fantasy power by flirting to get their own way or satisfy their own temporarily inflated egos.
When their illusions fall, after they are used and dumped or exploited and demeaned a time or two, they transfer their practice of wiles to boys closer in age. Of course, these boys also have similar fantasies and tend to mature, after a a year or two.
Any mature male involved with girls this age is literally playing with fire that will come back to burn them, but they are not pedophiles. The girls do not present as children. Instead, they purposely present as mature women.
The law changes as to ‘age of consent’, as do societal mores. One look at the photo being offered as proof of the accuser’s childhood status puts the lie to it. She wears makeup, tight clothing and knows she’s capable of effecting males. She is not in pigtails and a pinafore.
Given the context and accepting for the case of argument that the described encounter took place, Moore exhibited poor judgement and let his little head do the thinking, but he was never exhibiting an attraction to children.