Gary (Gadsden Police Officer Lt. Faye Gary) explained that the Gadsden Police Department never actually received a complaint about Moore, despite those “rumors” and said being a juvenile detective, if a complaint had come in it would have gone to her and her division at the police department. She also said she had never thought Moore was seeking out teenage women, but women “maybe in their 20s.”
“When it was heard on a daily basis — every day we were looking for a complaint to come in,” she said. “And I didn’t realize until sometime later that when they said he liked young girls, I just thought he liked young ladies, you know, younger than him, maybe in their 20s. I had no idea, or we had no idea, that we were talking about 14-year-olds. But we never got a complaint on it.”
“We never thought it was teenagers,” she added. “But you know, there was nothing we could really do about it until we got an actual complaint and we never got a complaint on it.”