On Monday, Beverly Young Nelson came out alongside hag attorney Gloria Allred and made more damning allegations against Roy Moore. Nelson claims Moore sexually abused her when she was a minor. She detailed one instance where he allegedly squeezed her neck and forced her head onto his crotch. She claims he told her, “You’re just a child, I’m the district attorney if you tell anyone about this no one will ever believe you.”
Beverly Young-Nelson, who says Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually assaulted her, worked as a waitress in Gadsden, AL as a teenager: https://t.co/jrzsy7IrVy pic.twitter.com/bZyraUBtUX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 13, 2017
“Mr. Moore reached over and began groping me, him putting his hands on my breast,” Beverly Young-Nelson says, describing alleged assault in Moore’s car https://t.co/jrzsy7IrVy pic.twitter.com/U1WM9CphnM
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 13, 2017
“If you tell anyone about this, no one will ever believe you,” accuser Beverly Young-Nelson says Roy Moore told her after alleged sexual assault https://t.co/jrzsy7IrVy pic.twitter.com/RdVjL9ci5Z
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 13, 2017
Roy Moore addressed the new allegations in a bizarre press conference of his own.
“This is absolutely false,” Moore said. “I never did what she said I did. I don’t even know the woman. I don’t know anything about her. I don’t even know where the restaurant is or was.”
His wife Kayla Moore also spoke out.
Moore’s wife: “It’s ugly. It’s politics. It’s the ugliest politics I’ve ever been in in my life.”
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Moore’s wife speaks. Says, “He has never one time lifted a finger to me…he’s godly, he’s loving, and everyone in this community knows it.”
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
Roy Moore’s wife Kayla: “He’s godly, he’s loving to everyone in this community.”
— Jonathan Hardison (@FOX6Hardison) November 13, 2017
Just one extremely troubling detail: He denied even knowing Nelson, but he wrote in her yearbook.
“To a sweeter, more beautiful girl, I could not say ‘Merry Christmas,’” the note read. He signed it, “Love, Roy Moore D.A.”
And here’s this:
Roy Moore’s signature in Beverly Young Nelson’s yearbook compared to his signature this year: pic.twitter.com/DoBoCx77eX
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) November 13, 2017
To be clear: Moore says he has never met a woman whose yearbook appears to have a message from him with his signature.
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 13, 2017
“I don’t even know the woman,” he said, despite the inscription in her yearbook pic.twitter.com/8J99aN1Ciw
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 13, 2017
I asked Moore if he’s prepared to testify under oath, as Beverly Young Nelson is prepared to do. He walked away & didn’t answer my question.
— Lauren Walsh (@LaurenWalshTV) November 13, 2017
Every story makes him look worse. I mean…this dude was banned from a mall for allegedly creeping on teenagers.
There are so many angles here. On one hand, these stories sound BAD. On the other hand, this guy was in high positions for years. Where were these women before? I’m not victim-blaming. I’m asking.
I don’t even know WHAT to think anymore.
h/t Twitchy