Beverly Young Nelson stepped forward Monday as the fifth woman to allege that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore engaged in inappropriate behavior when she was a teenager, and the first to accuse him of behaving violently.
Nelson alleged at an afternoon press conference with prominent attorney Gloria Allred that Moore forced himself on her after offering her a ride home in the late 1970s, when she was 16.
She said that Moore was a regular at a restaurant where she worked and that she flirted with her and complemented her long red hair.
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The Moore campaign dismissed the latest claims before they were made, saying in a statement: “Gloria Allred is a sensationalist leading a witch hunt, and she is only around to create a spectacle.”
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