SIAP: Local Residents in Gadsden chime in about Roy Moore

Guys. Way too many eyewitness accounts to be total fabrications

It appears Roy Moore was somewhat of a local scumbag. He was the ‘70s version of a lurker, not quite a stalker. And for whatever reason, liked young girls. Damn.
Pretty damning accounts

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One woman, Wendy Miller, told AL.com that Moore approached her at a local mall in 1977, when she was 14 and working there as a Santa's helper

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He waited until she turned 16 though before asking her out

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"Him liking and dating young girls was never a secret in Gadsden when we were all in high school," Sheryl Porter, an Etowah County resident, told AL.com. Moore was the assistant district attorney for the county in the late 1970s and early 80s.

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"In our neighborhoods up by Noccalula Falls we heard it all the time. Even people at the courthouse know it was a well-known secret," Porter said.

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Noccalula falls is a nice day get-away btw. Apparently some Indian princess killed herself by throwing herself over the falls when her father betrothed her to the older prince of a neighboring tribe. A great petting zoo for the kiddies too.

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Another longtime resident, Blake Usry, told the publication that he knew several girls that Moore had approached at the mall. Usry said that when he was a teenager, he often saw Moore at the mall. "He would go and flirt with all the young girls," he said. "It'd seem like every Friday or Saturday night [you'd see him] walking around the mall, like the kids did."

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If anything these people, who are willing to give out their names, are painting a picture of a disturbing behavior pattern that was tolerated. Shame on them

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Jason Nelms, who visited the Gadsden Mall often when he was a teenager, told the magazine that managers at the movie theater used to joke about keeping an eye on kids that would hang out outside the building. "Anyway, when asked why they had to keep an eye outside, they said that some older guy had been trying to pick up younger girls. They didn't go beyond that but one of the concession workers whispered to us later that it was Roy Moore he was talking about," Nelms said.

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Important enough that they whispered about him. Maybe back then people were just afraid of a DA with power?