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A former prosecutor who once worked alongside embattled Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in the early 1980s told CNN it was "common knowledge" at the time that Moore dated high school girls.

"It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird," former deputy district attorney Teresa Jones told CNN in comments aired Saturday. "We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall ... but you really wouldn't say anything to someone like that."

CBS News has reached out to Jones for comment.

Jones, now a partner at the Syprett, Meshad, Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer, P.A. law firm based in Sarasota, Florida, served as deputy district attorney for Etowah County, Alabama from 1982 to 1985, according to her firm's website. Moore worked as a deputy district attorney in that office from 1977 to 1982. Before joining the DA's office, Jones was the assistant city attorney for the city of Gadsden, Alabama, the county seat of Etowah County.

Jones' comments come after an explosive Washington Post report in which four women say Moore pursued them sexually or romantically when they were in their teens. The youngest accuser, Leigh Corfman, said she was 14 and Moore was 32 when he sexually touched her.

Mike Ortiz, an ex-boyfriend of Corfman told CNN she relayed the story to him when they dated for about two years around 2009. Corfman's description to the Post fits what she told him to a tee, he said.

"But I believed her when she told me and I still believe her," he said on CNN. "She wouldn't lie about something like that."

Conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity asked Moore Friday on his show whether Moore would have dated teenagers when he was in his 30s.

"No, not generally," said Moore, who also said he always asked the permission of a girl's mother before dating her.

Republicans are scrambling ahead of the Dec. 12 special Senate election between Moore and Democrat Doug Jones, with the deadline for replacing a candidate on the ballot well past.

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Stanky posted:

Pardon me, but if it were common knowledge at the time when Roy Moore was a deputy district attorney, why wasn't he fired? It couldn't be that he was a Democrat at the time could it? Perhaps his deviancy was as much celebrated in his county as much as the Clinton's were in Arkansas.

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Stanky posted:

Pardon me, but if it were common knowledge at the time when Roy Moore was a deputy district attorney, why wasn't he fired? It couldn't be that he was a Democrat at the time could it? Perhaps his deviancy was as much celebrated in his county as much as the Clinton's were in Arkansas.

I'm guessing it was common knowledge he dated young girls, but that it wasn't common knowledge about the 14 year old girl. Remember, Moore said he always asked the mother of the girl for permission if she was on the young side, and we have no doubt that he did with 16, 17, and 18 year old girls, so yes it would have been common knowledge about them. Yet the 14 year old accuser stated she had to meet him down the street from her home. What was the difference? Just a little legal technicality?

FVPOA posted:
Stanky posted:

Pardon me, but if it were common knowledge at the time when Roy Moore was a deputy district attorney, why wasn't he fired? It couldn't be that he was a Democrat at the time could it? Perhaps his deviancy was as much celebrated in his county as much as the Clinton's were in Arkansas.

I'm guessing it was common knowledge he dated young girls, but that it wasn't common knowledge about the 14 year old girl. Remember, Moore said he always asked the mother of the girl for permission if she was on the young side, and we have no doubt that he did with 16, 17, and 18 year old girls, so yes it would have been common knowledge about them. Yet the 14 year old accuser stated she had to meet him down the street from her home. What was the difference? Just a little legal technicality?

Even if you're guessing that the 14 year old wasn't known about, it still wouldn't be a smart thing to have a creepy guy dating slightly legal high school girls in the DA's office. I would suspect that the LEO's would have wondered about on which side of the jail bars Moore should be standing on. It still stinks to high heaven that just past the cutoff date to change the ballots that a November "October surprise" has been dropped on the state's voters. If Moore's behavior was such a known fact in  Etowah County, I think that information should have been dropped on the voters before the primaries if not years ago. 

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