Roy Moore accuser slams his denials: 'I wonder how many 'me's' he doesn't know'
Nearly two weeks after alleging that she was sexually assaulted by Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore when she was just 14, Leigh Corfman gave her first public interview Monday. Speaking with the Today show's Savannah Guthrie, Corfman recounted how Moore brought her to his home, stripped her down to her undergarments, and began touching her before she told him that she was uncomfortable and wanted to go home.
"I was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adult's world," Corfman said, "and he was 32 years old."
Corfman first told her story to The Washington Post, which included her as one of four women who alleged inappropriate conduct by Moore. Corfman was the only one of the women who alleged that Moore had sexually assaulted her; the others said he courted or kissed them when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s. Since the Post's story, five more accusers have come forward to allege that Moore groped, assaulted, or pursued them when they were minors. Moore has mostly denied the allegations.
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When asked to address Moore's claim that he did not know Corfman, she replied, "I wonder how many me's he doesn't know." Corfman stressed that the Post sought her out for its story, and that she was reluctant to come forward until reporters were able to find other women who had similar experiences with Moore. She added that she blamed herself for her encounter with Moore for decades and did not speak out earlier in fear that she and her family would be "castigated."
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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.
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