Gadsden locals say Moore's predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret

AL.com ^ | 11-13-2017 | Anna Claire Vollers

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Roy Moore's penchant for flirting with teen girls was "common knowledge" and "not a big secret" around Gadsden, according to some area residents.

The Senate candidate has denied any wrongdoing in the wake of a report from The Washington Post in which four women accused Moore of inappropriate advances - and in one instance, a sexual encounter - toward them when they were teens and he was in his early 30s.

One of the four women claims she was 14 at the time, making her the only one whose claim would represent a legal violation. Moore has said he never met her. A fifth woman came forward this afternoon.

Moore and other Republican leaders have questioned why it took so long for his accusers, now in their 50s, to come forward publicly.

And yet people who lived in Etowah County during that time have said Moore's flirting with and dating much younger women and girls was no secret.

"These stories have been going around this town for 30 years," said Blake Usry, who grew up in the area and lives in Gadsden. "Nobody could believe they hadn't come out yet."

Usry, a traveling nurse, said he knew several of the girls that Moore tried to flirt with.

"It's not a big secret in this town about Roy Moore," he said. "That's why it's sort of frustrating to watch" the public disbelieve the women who have come forward, he said.

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The sexual mores, age of consent, and culture were different in the Deep South 40 yrs ago compared to today; Moore sought and got the permission of the parents, and didn’t go beyond kissing, and in fact married a younger woman. He was obviously wife shopping. The Allred accuser had numerous inconsistencies in her testimony, according to facts (car doors didn’t lock so they couldn’t be unlocked by the passenger back then; homes in the 70s didn’t have separate phones in the children’s rooms, least of all in rural Alabama).
A classmate says the girl was dating *her* brother 3 yrs before the Moore accusation, and she would have been 11; her stepson says she is lying; the supposed signature of Moore is in a different color ink and the handwriting doesn’t match, and Moore was only d deputy DA so he wouldn’t have signed it DA...and yearbooks don’t get signed at Christmas; and during the Press conference she called him ‘Ray’.
On another FR thread, there is a letter from Moore’s Law firm challenging these reports.

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I’m not saying these stories arent politically motivated, they clearly are.

Whether true or not, thats pretty hard to say, esp after so much time has passed.

and like I said before my aunt uncle got married before they were both 16, but at least they were in the same age group..

But just the way he creeps around the mall looking for teen girls, sorry thats a HUGE red flag in my book.