ADetectives assigned to the Anne Arundel County Police Child Abuse Unit along with the Fugitive Apprehension Team arrested 47-year-old Donald Joseph Powell of
sending shock waves not just through this community and not just through the state of alabama, but also through a campaign. a campaign that is for a crucial senate seat and the election on that is just a couple of weeks away. it all seems to center on allegations that date back to the late 70s when roy moore at that time was an assistant district attorney here in gadsden, alabama. a number of women have come forward to say when they were teenagers, he approached them to start some kind of relationship. he was 32 years old at the time, and it appears by the stories that these women tell to the washington post he had a proclivity to try to start up relationships with young high school age girls. there s one girl in particular, leigh corfman you already mentioned. she is the one that makes the allegations that this goes beyond a case of a man wanting to have romance, that he had an improper and sexually charged kind of incident with her when she was 14.