http://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-supreme-court/1707584.html

A majority overruled one particular point of law at the request of the state. Moore dissents. Maybe one of our people in the legal field will stumble across this and interpret.

The 17-year-old defendant was sentenced to 23 years in prison, and that is not affected by this decision. The actual sex crime seems to have been the defendant putting small children's penises in his mouth as a form of oral sex. "Sodomy." Alabama's legal definition very different from how most of us use the word.

The reasoning of the majority comes first, then Moore's dissent. The majority seem to think "implied threat" can come from any person of authority with the ability to punish as seen by a small child.

Moore argues for this definition: The “implied” threat in the definition of forcible compulsion is not the threat of sexual assault but of “immediate death or serious physical injury.”

Don't know what to think about the whole thing except that Moore would obviously raise the bar considerably higher on the crime that particular provision involving "implied threat" could be applied against.

About this point, though, I am remembering a 14-year-old girl being encouraged to take her clothes off by a person of authority. If this happened, it seems Moore liked to regard their interaction as entirely consensual, no "implied threat" from the fact that children are required to obey authority or that he was a man who had her alone in his house.

... but not the parts he does."

He's one of them. Actually, he is them. He's all their hatred, prejudice, bigotry, homophobia, sexism, ageism, racism, and misogyny rolled into one ugly, disgusting face. He's equal parts Pat Robertson, Phil Robertson, Bryan Fischer, Theodore Shoebat, and every other horrible fundamentalist out there. As long as he walks free and is able to run for Senate, he's everything disgusting, soulless and wrong that the Values Voters stand for. He's their face, and we should make him their face. They own this.

And the same goes for anyone who defends this piece of shit, they stand for that as well.

It was in 2015.

Alabama voters don't seem to care.

Don't know about the child but the perp was not white.

But the perpetrator was black, no race on the 4 children who were ages 3 to 5. The boy wasn't an employee, but the son of an employee.

charges. This article has a video made by his primary opponent.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/736547/watch-gop-sen-luther-strange-accuse-roy-moore-being-soft-pedophiles-back-september

My phone down loads slowly..

I don't doubt it is what he said, but I think all the info should be right or people will deny and yell fake news

And Higdon was the child of an employee, not an actual employee. He was sentenced to 23 years initially. I'm on my phone and can't look it up now as to how the appeals went, but I hate to repeat something before I have it straight. If this article has this much wrong, it may have more wrong so I I would double check it.

Posing as devout Christian. Mindset of ISIS with abhorrent actions to match.

So of course he sympathizes with others who do the same.

(And, yes, I'm going to continue to use the words "fucks children" when I talk about him or anyone else who fucks children.)

The author speaks for a lot of us. I know we hear how the "sensible" approach is that we must find some common ground with these ugly stupid ignorant fools that STILL would vote for Trump if they could.

But for gawds sake, sometimes ya just gotta vent. That "other side" has to at least start to come to the center, to at least acknowledge Trump is unfit (even if they'd never vote Democrat) ...something to start.

But this author is right, as it stands now at least, these people are not only deplorable they are irredeemable.

When you can justify the rape or assault of children, I’m f****** done with you.

You pedophile-loving, sexual-assault defending, Bible-thumping, Putin-worshipping, evil, authoritarian racist losers can all drown for all I care. (Or, what would be more likely, shoot each other up.) If these are the values of the so-called “heartland”, than f*** the heartland.

You embrace hatred of your fellow man, yet promote lust for someone’s else’s child. Then you have the sick audacity to say you promote “family values”. You don’t need economic help--you need psychological help. The only people worse than you are the GOP silent enablers who excuse every monstrous thing because speaking out might mean they won’t get to kick a poor person in the teeth anymore.

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of forcible compulsion. He states clearly that the sodomy conviction was appropriate; the dispute is over whether the teenager's inherent authority over the children is sufficient to equal forcible compulsion, which is defined by statute. That refers to the second count of the indictment. I don't think you can conclude from his dissent that he's pro-pedophile.

Based on that, I agree with you that this case proves a lot less than the OP suggests.

I appreciate your courage in posting something that undercuts the Official DU Orthodoxy on this matter.

And it sums up exactly what I've been thinking for the past year.

Taliban shit right there...