The Senate candidate has denied it’s his handwriting and has called for an expert to examine it.
A woman who has accused Roy Moore of sexual assault said she added notes under a disputed high school yearbook entry she says was written by the Alabama Senate candidate.
With the state’s special election just days away, the notes add a new wrinkle as Moore fights off accusations of sexual misconduct with minors. But Beverly Young Nelson, who claims Moore groped her when she was a 16-year-old waitress in the 1970s, said the inscription is genuine and is planning a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred on Friday.
“To a sweeter, more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas. Christmas 1977. Love, Roy Moore, D. A.” reads the yearbook entry. Below it is written a date, «12-22-1977,» and «Olde Hickory House,» the restaurant where she worked.
Moore’s defenders have claimed there are differences in the handwriting, particularly the date, which Young said she wrote in an interview on Friday’s Good Morning America.
“We’re going to present evidence that we think is important on the issue whether Roy Moore signed the yearbook,” Allred told ABC News on Friday.
Since going public with her accusations last month, Young told GMA she and her family have faced threats.
«I’m scared to go anywhere,» she said. «Shopping, I have to have someone with me.»
Moore has frequently and loudly denied the accusations from Young and other women, and while his poll numbers bounced back from an initial hit, the stories are making Tuesday’s election much closer than expected for the conservative Republican.
