Locals Say Moore Was Banned From Mall for Harassing Girls

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After a woman came forward to accuse Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was a 16-year-old waitress, he issued another denial, saying he didn't know her or the restaurant she worked in—but her yearbook appears to tell a different story. Beverly Young Nelson showed reporters a high school yearbook with the inscription: "To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say 'Merry Christmas.' Christmas 1977. Love, Roy Moore, D.A. ... Olde Hickory House." The signature matches that from a document Moore signed earlier this year, tweeted Business Insider's Josh Barro. The Alabama US Senate candidate didn't comment on the yearbook during his Monday press conference, during which he said the accusation was "absolutely false" and he doesn't know where the eatery "is or was," the Week reports.

 In other developments:

  • Not welcome at the mall. More than a dozen sources tell the New Yorker that Moore was either banned or "run off" from the Gadsden Mall in his hometown for persistently trying to pick up teen girls when he was in his 30s. Former mall employees say they were told to look out for an older man pestering young girls. "The general knowledge at the time when I moved here was that this guy is a lawyer cruising the mall for high-school dates," one law enforcement officer says.

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