Moore Accused of Sex Assault as McConnell Urges Candidate's Exit
- Woman comes forward describing alleged assault in late 1970s
- Alabama Senate candidate defiant amid misconduct allegations
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A woman accused Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore Monday of sexually assaulting her when she was 16, hours after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believed Moore’s other accusers and called on the former Alabama judge to drop out of the campaign.
"Mr. Moore reached over and began groping me and putting his hands over my breasts," Beverly Young Nelson said at a news conference in New York City Monday with attorney Gloria Allred. Nelson said she yelled at him to stop, but "instead of stopping he began squeezing my neck attempting to force my head onto his crotch."