Roy Moore slapped with defamation suit from Leigh Corfman

OPINION:

Leigh Corfman, the Alabama woman who told the media in the lead-up to the special Senate election for Jeff Sessions’ seat that Roy Moore sexually molested her when she was 14, has now slapped a defamation suit against the former judge.

And she’s not seeking any money.

She’s simply asking Moore and his people to stop calling her a liar and painting her as a partisan hack for stating what she says is the truth — that Moore, who just lost his Senate race to Democrat Doug Jones, sexually touched her when she was under age and he was 32 years old.

“The decision to sue Mr. Moore and his campaign committee was difficult,” Corfman said in a statement to AL.com. “But they need to be held responsible for their actions. Mr. Moore sexually abused me when I was only 14 years old. Then he and his campaign called me a liar and immoral when I publicly disclosed his misconduct. They ignored my requests to stop attacking me and to acknowledge the truth. Just last week, after the election, they filed a lawsuit in which they once again called me a liar. By this lawsuit, I seek to do what I could not do as a 14-year-old — hold Mr. Moore and those who enable him accountable.”

Good for Corfman.

Undoubtedly, she’s opening herself up to a whole new round of attacks by those who side with Moore — those, like the governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, who shockingly said at one point during the fiery campaign season that she believed Corfman and her fellow accusers, but that she would vote for him nonetheless because he’s a Republican.

Talk about unconcerned for justice.

Anyhow, many of Moore’s more vocal backers predicted Corfman and her fellow accusers would disappear from the public platform once the election ended — and they said this by way of showing how little steam their accusations had, and how politically motivated their whole sexual allegations were.

Well, guess Corfman, for one, is not exiting, after all.

Guess she’s not in it for the money, either. And now, let the haters get busy with their hate, and the vicious trolls get going with their trolling. Let’s see what new reasons pop to paint Corfman the perpetrator, Moore a victim and the whole recent Senate controversies in Alabama nothing but complete and utter figments of media imaginations.