Gloria Allred held a press conference with Roy Moore’s latest accuser, Beverly Young Nelson.
WATCH: A new accuser is stepping forward with allegations against Roy Moore with attorney Gloria Allred https://t.co/QNgiMsN4qI pic.twitter.com/CO4oyQZdK9
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Nelson claims Moore sexually assaulted her when she was just a minor– 15 or 16 years old.
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
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Nelson describes her first encounter when she was 15-years-old working as a waitress at a local restaurant after school
She said Moore, DA of Etowah County, was a regular customer where he would often pull the ends of her hair as she passed by and complimented the young girl’s looks
“I did nothing to encourage this behavior,” said Nelson, adding “I did not respond to any of Mr. Moore’s flirtatious behavior.
She said that at the time of the encounters she had a boyfriend and was “not interested in having a dating or sexual relationship with a man twice my age.
Nelson went on, describing another incident in which Moore signed a school yearbook of hers when she was 16
“He wrote in my yearbook as follows: ‘To a sweeter more beautiful girl, I could not say Merry Christmas, Christmas, 1977, Love, Roy Moore, Old Hickory House. Roy Moore, DA.’
She said after the incident, Moore had offered to drive Nelson home after work, during which she alleges he forced himself on Nelson and groped her in a locked car.
“I trusted Mr. Moore because he was district attorney, I thought he was doing something nice to offer to drive me home,” said Nelson
She detailed her fighting off Moore in the car as he squeezed her neck, forcing her head onto his crotch
She said that Moore eventually gave up, and told her, “You’re just a child, I’m the district attorney if you tell anyone about this no one will ever believe you.”
"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
Nelson said she’s a Trump supporter and that her statement “has nothing whatsoever to do with Republicans or Democrats.”
“It has everything to do with Mr. Moore’s sexual assault when I was a teenager,” Nelson said.
"My husband and I supported Donald Trump for president. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Republicans or the Democrats. It has everything to do with Mr. Moore's sexual assault when I was a teenager." pic.twitter.com/wrzCZXAI7p
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 13, 2017
“He no longer has any power over me and I no longer live in fear of him,” she added.
Moore’s senate Campaign Chairman Bill Armistead called Allred a “sensationalist leading a witch hunt.”
To be continued…