Beverly Young Nelson, one of Roy Moore’s accusers, admitted to ABC she added the date and place to the “smoking gun” yearbook inscription, she alleges Moore signed in 1977, to support her claims Moore sexually assaulted her.
Some legal experts and armchair attorneys say what she did is not a forgery but it is, or at the least an act of fraud, here’s why.
When Young presented the yearbook with Moore’s inscription, it was presented as “he wrote this” in its entirety. Look at the picture, she’s holding and pointing to it. This is what Young said verbatim with her “attorney” sitting right next to and comforting her:
“I happened to bring my yearbook to work with me to the restaurant on December the 22, 1977. I put it down at the end of the counter. Mr. Moore happened to notice it and he asked me if he could write in my yearbook. And I felt flattered and I said “yes”. He wrote in my yearbook…He wrote in my yearbook as follows:
‘To a sweeter more beautiful girl
I could not say ‘Merry Christmas’
Christmas 1977
Love,
Roy Moore
Old Hickory House‘
And it signed it “Roy Moore DA””
Young never once said, “I added the date and place”, during that presser with Allred, whom did not correct her, “for the record”, that she added the date and place as she told ABC News. Now we know why Allred was adamant to not handing the yearbook over to a neutral third party for signature analysis.
Context matters, especially when you’re accusing a man of pedophilia. Again we’re talking about at the time of the presser, the yearbook inscription was presented as a whole. So you’re wrong Ben Shapiro!!
She DID admit to adding the place/date underneath, which is bad enough – it calls into question timing and what she was willing to do to prove it. But you don’t need to lie.— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 8, 2017
Now to be clear, not saying Moore did or didn’t go after these women when they were in their teens. To date other than the accusations, we have NO solid proof it happened. With Al Franken, we have photo evidence of his behavior, and with John Conyers we have payoffs. We evidence showing unacceptable behavior against Moore. You would think after a few of the controversies surrounding him over the years someone would have said something. Yet, a month before a special election AFTER a primary all these victims come out of the woodwork!? It doesn’t add up.