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Roy Moore blasted by woman's lawyer: 'He knows full well' why the women kept quiet - ABC News

posted onNovember 12, 2017
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Article snippet: Republican Senate candidate posted on Facebook on Saturday. "As young teenage girls in the late 1970s in a small, rural southern town, they had no way of knowing their rights, especially against him considering that he was a district attorney at the time." Cobia was reacting to Moore's speech at a allegations first reported by the Washington Post that he engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old when he was 32 and pursued other girls, including Gloria Deason, when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his 30s. He said Saturday that "revelations" will be coming out on the motivations behind the article. “In the next few days, there will be revelations about the motivations and the content of this article," Moore said. "They will be brought to the public. We fully expect the people of Alabama to see through this charade." The Senate candidate received a standing ovation from the crowd. The lawyer for Deason in her statement on Facebook countered that the women who told their stories to the Washington Post did not seek the media attention. "Why did the women speak out now? Because someone (The Post reporters) finally showed up at their doors and asked them to tell what he did to them," Cobia wrote. Moore's Democratic rival, Jones, on Saturday told ABC News affiliate in Birmingham, WBMA-TV, that the claims against Moore are "very serious allegations. I think he does need to do more than just simply deny them." Asked if he had anyth... Link to the full article to read more

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