Woman shares new evidence of relationship with Roy Moore when she was 17 years old

At this point, I think this is played out with the special election on the 12th. If anything, this is an attempt at breathing new life into the accusations.

You know...there's a whole lot of ambiguity here, and I don't understand why.

Let's take a look at this statement from the article:

"The Florida resident said she had a relationship with the Republican Alabama Senate candidate when she was 17 and he was in his 30s."

In another article, this lady is referred to as a "former teenage girlfriend".

The words "relationship" and "girlfriend" don't imply any kind of criminal or untoward activity. Words like "sexual assault" and "rape" do this...and I'm not seeing this anywhere. Perhaps someone would be so kind as to post a link where such claims are being made?

She was, by her own admission, 17 at the time of this supposed "relationship". Well, a bit of google-fu shows that the age of consent in Alabama is 16. The age of consent thirty years ago was also 16 (it was 16 at least as far back as 1920).

This being the case, even if there WAS a "relationship", what laws were being violated?

And please...let's stay away from comments like "how would you feel if it were YOUR daughter" and the like. We're talking about serious legal and professional matters here and such things depend upon the law, not our personal feelings. Did he, or did he not, violate any statute if the claim of a dating relationship is true?

If she were less than 16 but older than 12, then a case could be made for sexual abuse. Less than 12 would be a case of rape in the first degree. But that's NOT the case being claimed here.

IF this lady has "proof"...then she darm well ought to be forthcoming with it, and PDQ. The accusations she's making are serious and the repercussions are also serious, even if this never goes any further.

And proof isn't a graduation card, congratulating her on her achievement. That's, as they say in Britain, bollocks.