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kpete

(72,032 posts)
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 10:30 AM Dec 2017

I was a "Problem Child" too.

Moore campaign chairman calls Leigh Corfman--woman who says she was molested by Moore at age 14--a "problem child"

Corfman, for her part, says that one reason she didn’t publicly come forward sooner was because she didn’t want her children to have to endure attacks on her character. “There is no one here that doesn’t know that I’m not an angel,” Corfman told the Post. As if to prove Corfman’s point, Moore campaign chairman Bill Armistead threw a jab at her behavior as a child in an interview with The Weekly Standard on November 29. While trying to cast doubt on Corfman’s allegations, he garbled the Breitbart News report and falsely claimed that Corfman “wasn’t living with her mother at the time” she says she privately met Moore. “Custody had been given over to her father,” Armistead said. “That’s what this proceeding was all about. She went to court—the mother to turn the custody over to the father—because she was a problem child.”




http://www.weeklystandard.com/brazening-it-out-on-the-ground-with-roy-moores-campaign-in-alabama/article/2010667
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I was a "Problem Child" too. (Original Post) kpete Dec 2017 OP
Just the type that predators like to target. tanyev Dec 2017 #1
"Problem children" are also known to sexual predators MineralMan Dec 2017 #2
I was also a 'problem' child, but the problem isn't the child. the problem was the adults.... marble falls Dec 2017 #3
That met a "problem adult" Lochloosa Dec 2017 #4
Is he then admitting to their relationship? world wide wally Dec 2017 #5
If problem kids can be stoned to death get the red out Dec 2017 #6

tanyev

(42,642 posts)
1. Just the type that predators like to target.
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 10:40 AM
Dec 2017

No adult in their life keeping close tabs on them, and the victim can be accused of credibility issues if they say anything.

MineralMan

(146,341 posts)
2. "Problem children" are also known to sexual predators
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 10:43 AM
Dec 2017

as "potential victims." They're easy marks for grooming behavior. Roy Moore understood that. He exploited that.

marble falls

(57,404 posts)
3. I was also a 'problem' child, but the problem isn't the child. the problem was the adults....
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 10:47 AM
Dec 2017

and Roy Moore was the biggest problem of all. Predators like problem children for a variety of reasons: nobody believes us, we're marginalized by everybody else including at least a big part of our families, and we're automatically accused of everything and when we deny, well we're liars and making excuses. Predators just live for that problem child, we're tainted and they even accuse us when they're caught.

Roy still does not specifically deny anything, only making blanket denials. And smearing children by innuendo. Sounds like the behavior of a predator to me. But hey, what do I know, I'm a problem child.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
6. If problem kids can be stoned to death
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 11:23 AM
Dec 2017

There wouldn't be a problem with raping them either, right? Moore thinks ahead!

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