What in the world is the “Christian Post”? This hardly seems like am article written by a Christian author or one looking at things from a Christian point of view. I think the Christian Post is another deliberately misnamed leftist publication. That being said, I will refute as it is so easy.
1. Accuser # 1 is a Thrice divorced, multiple bankruptcy filing, shakedown artist with FOUR prior shakedown attempts of PASTORS for the same charges. Her mother has discredited her claims directly. She lied about key details like having a phone in her room to have conversations on w/Moore. If she was involved w/Moore it was when she was 17 not 14 which is critical. Bottom line she is not credible and was not illegal in any event.
2. Accusers 2-4 were all of Legal age and do not allege anything other than Moore being polite in his pursuit/interest in them. There is nothing here and they do not establish any wrongdoing or “pattern”.
3. Accuser #5 Completely debunked forger of her prime “evidence” (yearbook) who lied about having never seen Moore again when in actuality he presided over one of her Divorce proceedings. Never mind that if he had actually assaulted her she and or her attorney (or any other sane person) would have sought his recusal from those proceedings. Finally her own family has come forward and said they do not believe her.
CONCLUSION: At this point there is nothing. Let me repeat that. The first five accusers establish NOTHING!
Accusers 6,7 and 8
4. Accuser 8 was 22! There is nothing there, if it even happened, exactly as she described. A grown man pursued a grown woman very much over the age of consent (by 7 years).
5. Accuser 7 was over the age of consent. Again nothing illegal. Her details do not ring true. The idea that Moore called her principal to get her out of class to talk to her are ridiculous. Especially when she worked at the mall that he supposedly prowled. It would have been far easier for him to just talk to her there on one of his many “hunts”.
6. Accuser # 6 Alleges that he goosed her bottom in a way that no one else could see in his office. This is the only claim that so far has any chance of establishing what “They” are trying to establish.
When you have been smeared by 7 completely debunked claims of harassment, and your claim comes to light 25 years after it supposedly happened, it is time to give the benefit of the doubt to the very unfairly maligned Moore. There is no pattern of abuse there is one claim of a butt touching which is highly questionable in it’s own right. The man being accused has spent a lifetime being ridiculed for advocating and adhering to a Christian moral code. That he would deviate from that and risk his reputation by committing sexual assault in his professional place of employment does not pass the smell test.
That assertion about her being 17 should be pretty easy for any news media to document, correct? So why are they not spending anytime questioning her age 14 assertion?
Age of consent was 14 at the time.