NEW YORK _ Ivanka Trump believes "there's a special place in hell" for people who do the things that GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore is accused of.
While President Donald Trump ignored shouted questions from reporters about Moore on Wednesday, the first daughter weighed in on the scandal surrounding the firebrand former Alabama judge, telling The Associated Press that she has seen no evidence discrediting his accusers.
Moore has been accused of pursuing sexual and romantic relationships with teenage girls _ one as young as 14 _ when he was in his 30s.
"There is a special place in hell for people who prey on children," Trump told the AP. "I've yet to see a valid explanation, and I have no reason to doubt the victims' accounts."
Multiple women have come forward to say that Moore either pursued relationships with them or sexually assaulted them when they were teens. Moore has denied the charges. Trump did not call on Moore to exit the race to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Ivanka's father _ who was accused of sexual misconduct by over a dozen women during the 2016 campaign _ has yet to comment on the situation.
A new Moore accuser spoke out on Wednesday, telling AL.com that Moore grabbed her buttocks while she was in his office in 1991 signing over custody of her 12-year-old son to her mother.
Tina Johnson, 28, said Moore, who was married at the time, made her uncomfortable during the meeting by making comments about her appearance and then touched her as he left his Gadsden, Ala., office.
Another woman claims Moore tried to pick her up in 1982 _ when she was 17 _ as she was waitressing at a Red Lobster restaurant. "I just kind of said, 'Do you know how old I am?' " Kelly Harrison Thorp told AL.com. "And he said, 'Yeah. I go out with girls your age all the time.' "
Attorneys for the embattled candidate, meanwhile, sought to discredit another of his accusers, calling her claims of sexual assault into question.
Lawyer Philip Jauregui suggested that Beverly Young Nelson presented a forged signature in a yearbook when she came forward with her claim that Moore attacked her in 1977, when she was 16.
Jauregui said Moore, now 70, "flatly denies" signing the yearbook, and is adamant that it is not his handwriting.
The attorney said he sent a letter to Nelson lawyer Gloria Allred asking that a handwriting expert be allowed to examine the yearbook. Jauregui also said that, as a circuit judge, Moore presided over Nelson's 1999 divorce, which he said discredits her claim that the two haven't met since the alleged attack.
Speaking to CNN Wednesday evening, Allred stumbled as she tried to explain that omission, calling the detail a "distraction." Allred added that she would welcome an examination of the yearbook as long as it took place before a Senate committee and Moore agrees to testify under oath, as her client is willing to do. "We're not going to be distracted," she said.
