Roy and Kayla Moore

Roy Moore himself has repeatedly told a story that tells us what we need to know about his disgusting pursuit of teenage girls in his early 30s, AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire points out. It’s the story of how Moore met his wife. They met when she was 23 and he was 37, but:

"Many years before, I had attended a dance recital at Gadsden State Junior College," Moore wrote. "I remembered one of the special dances performed by a young woman whose first and last names began with the letter 'K.' It was something I had never forgotten. Could that young woman have been Kayla Kisor?" Moore later determined that it was. "Long afterward, I would learn that Kayla had, in fact, performed a special dance routine at Gadsden State years before," he wrote.

In a separate interview, Moore has guessed that the dance recital was eight years earlier.

It's a simple matter of subtraction. When Roy Moore first took notice of Kayla she would have been as young as 15. There's a little fuzziness, to be sure, in the timeline. There's the "or something" Moore fudges with in the interview. Eight years before could have been slightly too early to put Moore in Gadsden, he started work as an deputy district attorney there in 1977. So maybe she was 15, or maybe she was 16. But still, here is a grown man at about 30 years old attending a girls' dance recital, and doing what exactly?

That was at the very same time, Whitmire points out, that we have so many stories of Moore trolling the mall, hitting on teenage girls working in the stores, asking teenagers out. And there he was, at a dance recital, taking such special notice of one girl that he remembered her years later when they met at a party. Moore plays it as a sweet origin story to his marriage, but it has some seriously dark, gross background.

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