Where does your morality end?

When Leigh Corfman was only 14-years-old, a 32-year-old Roy Moore, who was an assistant district attorney, approached her and her mother outside a custody hearing in the Etowah County, Alabama courthouse. After introducing himself, Moore insisted on watching Corfman while her mother attended the custody hearing and Moore escalated things from there:

Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. “I wanted it over with — I wanted out,” she remembers thinking. “Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.” Corfman says she asked Moore to take her home, and he did.

Can you imagine being a child put in that position? With a mother who is fighting for custody and a man who could potentially sway the outcome of that hearing? It’s just sick. Every angle of it. After Corfman came forward, Moore and his backers, including his wife, have smeared Corfman and the other women who’ve come forward to say a 30-something-year-old Moore preyed on them when they were teens. Leigh Corfman has had enough, refuses to go silent again. She penned a crushing open letter to Roy Moore asking “Where does your immorality end?”

Mr. Moore, When the Washington Post approached me about what you did to me as a child, I told them what happened, just as I had told family and friends years before. I stand by every word. You responded by denying the truth. You told the world that you didn't even know me. Others in recent days have had the decency to acknowledge their hurtful actions and apologize for similar behavior, but not you. So I gave an interview on television so that people could judge for themselves whether I was telling the truth. You sent out your spokesmen to call me a liar. Day after day. Finally, last night, you did the dirty work yourself. You called me malicious, and you questioned my motivation in going public. I explained my motivation on the Today show. I said that this is not political for me, this is personal. As a 14-year old, I did not deserve to have you, a 32-year old, prey on me. I sat quietly for too long, out of concern for my family. No more. I am not getting paid for speaking up. I am not getting rewarded from your political opponents. What I am getting is stronger by refusing to blame myself and speaking the truth out loud. The initial barrage of attacks against me voiced by your campaign spokespersons and others seemed petty so I did not respond. But when you personally denounced me last night and called me slanderous names, I decided that I am done being silent. What you did to me when I was 14-years old should be revolting to every person of good morals. But now you are attacking my honesty and integrity. Where does your immorality end? I demand that you stop calling me a liar and attacking my character. Your smears and false denials, and those of others who repeat and embellish them, are defamatory and damaging to me and my family. I am telling the truth, and you should have the decency to admit it and apologize. Leigh Corfman

Given the latest poll numbers, which show Roy Moore with a shocking 5-point lead in the race for the U.S. Senate, perhaps this question should be posed to the citizens of Alabama as well. Where does your immorality end? Why in the world would Alabama residents vote for a pedophile?

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