--- title: Roy Moore Campaign Responds To Latest Assault Allegation description: The campaign wants to analyze the yearbook the accuser's attorney has used as evidence canonical: https://time.com/5026660/roy-moore-campaign-yearbook-sexual-assault-response/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-15T23:06:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T00:16:31.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Roy Moore's Campaign Wants Experts to Analyze One of His Accuser's Yearbooks og:description: The yearbook contains Moore's signatures og:url: https://time.com/5026660/roy-moore-campaign-yearbook-sexual-assault-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39226b9576ec2af1/6988e5e9fb4eac2cc4894935/gettyimages-874295910.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Embattled GOP Senate Candidate Judge Roy Moore Attends Church Revival Service At Baptist Church In Jackson, Alabama og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Roy Moore's Campaign Wants Experts to Analyze One of His Accuser's Yearbooks twitter:description: The yearbook contains Moore's signatures twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt39226b9576ec2af1/6988e5e9fb4eac2cc4894935/gettyimages-874295910.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Roy Moore's Campaign Wants Experts to Analyze One of His Accuser's Yearbooks > Sponsored content. 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The embattled campaign of Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore responded to one of his accusers allegations of sexual assault with a desire to verify a piece of evidence she used in coming forward._  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:16 AM UTCPublished: Nov 15, 2017 11:06 PM UTC  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:16 AM UTCPublished: Nov 15, 2017 11:06 PM UTC The embattled campaign of Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore wants one of his accusers to hand over her yearbook so experts can verify the authenticity of the candidate’s signature. On November 13, Beverly Young Nelson held a press conference with her attorney Gloria Allred, alleging that Moore had assaulted her in 1977 when she was 16 and working at a restaurant that he frequented as a District Attorney. Nelson noted that, before the assault happened, Moore would often pull her hair and complement her looks, and had signed her yearbook.At the press conference, Allred held up a copy that yearbook. The signature read “to a sweeter, more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas. Love Roy Moore, D.A.” Moore denied the allegations in a brief press conference Monday, saying he did not know who Nelson was. “I don’t know anything about her. I don’t even know where the restaurant is or was,” Moore said Monday. Jauregui also said that, even though Nelson said she had no contact with Moore after the incident, Moore was the attorney assigned to her divorce case in 1999. On Wednesday, Moore’s attorney, Phillip L. Jauregui, said that Allred needs to release that yearbook so the signature can be verified by a handwriting expert, arguing that a digital copy will not suffice. “Everything on that page, they said was written by Judge Moore,” said Jauregui. “Now Judge Moore not only has denied everything she said before but now flatly denies that. And he says its not true. We have a handwriting expert thats looking at those. But here’s the problem. A handwriting expert can’t look at a copy on the internet, right? They’ve got to look at the original.” The campaign has sent an official letter to Allred demanding the release of the yearbook, Jauregui said. Allred said in a statement that she had sent letters the Senate Judiciary and Ethics Committee asking that they hold public hearings where both Nelson and Moore would testify. Should that occur, she said, she would agree to have the yearbook examined by an independent party. ## Transcript Look at the 1977 after Merry Christmas, look at those two sevens. And then look below at the 77. And I want to ask you, do you think it was written by the same person? I want you to look at Olde Hickory House, which they say Judge Moore wrote. Judge Moore says there's no way in the world That's his handwriting. We have a handwriting expert, pardon me, that's looking at those. But here's the problem, a handwriting expert can't look at a copy on the Internet, right? They've gotta look at an original. So right now Trent Garmon, our attorney, has sent a letter or is sending a letter to Gloria Allred demanding that the yearbook be released. We'll send it to a neutral custodian. We'll keep chain of custody. And our professional expert will examine it and we'll find out, is it genuine? 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