In a brief appearance before reporters in his small Etowah County hometown of Gallant, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore again denied wrongdoing and said that he doesn't even know his latest accuser, who came forward Monday.

Moore spoke for a couple of minutes with reporters and took no questions. His wife, Kayla, also made a brief statement.

"I can tell you without hesitation this is absolutely false," Moore told reporters. "I never did what she said I did. I don't even know the woman. I don't know anything about her."

At a press conference in New York on Monday, Beverly Young Nelson alleged she was sexually assaulted by Moore in December 1977 when she was 16 years old and he was 30.

Nelson produced a high school yearbook that she said Moore signed about a week before she said the assault occurred in Moore's car in the parking lot of a restaurant where she worked and he frequently visited.

Nelson said she worked at the Olde Hickory House in Gadsden in northeast Alabama and that Moore would often flirt with her when he visited. She said he was known to touch her long red hair.

"I don't even know where the restaurant is or was," Moore said in the late afternoon media visit.

Nelson and New York attorney Gloria Allred, speaking today at a press conference, called on the Senate Judiciary committee to investigate the allegations ahead of the Dec. 12 Alabama special Senate election. Moore, a Republican is running against Democrat Doug Jones.

Moore reiterated a defense he has used since The Washington Post first reported last Thursday that four women -- all in their teens at the time -- said they had sexual or romantic encounters with Moore when he was in his 30s. Moore has said repeatedly that the allegations are false and an effort to keep him from being elected to the Senate on Dec. 12. He faces Democrat Doug Jones on the ballot.

"If you look at this situation, you will see that I'm 11 points ahead or 10 points ahead, this race being just 28 days off, this is a political maneuver," Moore said. "It has nothing to do with reality. It's all about politics."

The Moore campaign issued an response at 1:28 p.m. in an emailed statement to reporters.

"Gloria Allred is a sensationalist leading a witch hunt, and she is only around to create a spectacle," said the statement, attributed to Moore campaign chair Bill Armistead. "Allred was the attorney who claims credit for giving us Roe v. Wade which has resulted in the murder of tens of millions of unborn babies."

In her brief statement, Kayla Moore defended her husband.

"I have been married to this man for 32 years," she told reporters. "We've been together for 33 altogether. He has never one time lifted a finger to me. He is the most gentle, most kind man I have ever known inmy life. He's godly and everybody in this community knows it.

"These things are false and it's ugly. It's the ugliest politics I've ever been in in my life."