A pistillate has accused the pastor of a Texas megachurch of sexually abusing her erstwhile she was 12, with the preacher lone admitting to 'inappropriate intersexual behaviour with a young lady.'
Robert Morris, 62 the laminitis and elder pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, which claims a play attendance of 100,000, is facing the allegations from Cindy Clemishire.
She claimed the pastor, who was besides erstwhile a spiritual advisor to erstwhile President Donald Trump, abused her from 1982 to 1987, erstwhile she was betwixt the ages of 12 and 16.
Clemishire, who went nationalist with her accusations and revealed her individuality Friday, said that Morris was a traveling preacher erstwhile she met her and her household astatine their religion successful Oklahoma successful 1981.
The 2 families - including Morris' woman and lad - became close, and Clemishire alleged that Morris' maltreatment began erstwhile helium stayed astatine her household location successful Tulsa connected Christmas 1982.
A pistillate has accused Robert Morris, the pastor of a Texas megachurch, of sexually abusing her erstwhile she was 12, with the preacher lone admitting to 'inappropriate intersexual behaviour with a young lady'
Robert Morris, 62 the laminitis and elder pastor of Gateway Church successful Southlake, which claims a play attendance of 100,000, is facing the allegations from Cindy Clemishire (pictured)
She describes a country successful which Morris asked her to travel to his country and talk with him, asking her to laic connected his bed.
Morris began to interaction her inappropriately, with Clemishire alleging helium touched her stomach, past her bosom and past nether her pants.
'I retrieve vividly everything I was wearing and however the pajamas felt. They were airy pink, and it was a small apical with bloomers, and I had connected underwear and bloomers and the small apical and a robe that snapped up implicit the top,' she said.
Clemishire adds that aft the alleged maltreatment occurs, Morris 'told maine I could ne'er archer anyone, due to the fact that it would ruin everything.'
She says that helium would proceed to isolate her and maltreatment her for the adjacent 4 and a fractional years earlier she yet spoke out, archetypal to a household person and past her parents.
Clemishire's begetter demanded Morris beryllium removed from ministry and she claims helium did for 2 years successful bid to acquisition 'restoration.' He returned to preaching successful 1989.
Morris, for his part, admitted to immoderate wrongdoing, though helium ne'er admits to Clemishire being underage astatine the clip successful a connection to The Christian Post connected Saturday.
'When I was successful my aboriginal twenties, I was progressive successful inappropriate intersexual behaviour with a young woman successful a location wherever I was staying. It was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong. This behaviour happened connected respective occasions implicit the adjacent fewer years,' helium said.
Morris is the laminitis and elder pastor of Gateway Church successful Southlake, which claims a play attendance of 100,000 and was besides erstwhile a spiritual advisor to erstwhile President Donald Trump
Morris (pictured with his wife), 62, was accused by Cindy Clemishire of abusing her from 1982 to 1987, erstwhile she was betwixt the ages of 12 and 16
He claims to person 'repented' successful March of 1987 erstwhile the accusations became nationalist and said helium received 'counseling and state ministry.'
Morris says that helium and his woman met with Clemishire and her household successful October of 1989 and 'asked their forgiveness, and they graciously forgave me.'
He besides alleges that erstwhile helium returned to the ministry, helium did truthful with the 'full blessing' of Clemishire's father.
Clemishire told the Dallas Morning News that this is not rather the truth.
'Of people we privation to forgive, we're called to forgive. But he's ne'er had anyone's blessing successful my household to beryllium backmost successful the ministry,' she said.
'We don't judge anyone that's done thing similar this should beryllium an overseer to anyone successful immoderate industry, but particularly successful the church.'
She besides doesn't judge Morris has ever truly repented for his maltreatment and his connection proves that.
'I don't deliberation that it's repentant erstwhile idiosyncratic calls a 12-year-old a 'young lady' and tries to conscionable disregard what happened arsenic conscionable immoderate dense petting,' Clemishire said.
Clemishire describes a country successful which Morris asked her to travel to his country and talk with him, asking her to laic connected his bed
Morris says that helium and his woman met with Clemishire and her household successful October of 1989 and 'asked their forgiveness, and they graciously forgave me'
'I don't judge that's repentance. There's nary kid connected Earth that immoderate idiosyncratic should ever bash that to. It's conscionable unacceptable. There's zero excuse.'
'He didn't travel guardant and confess. He was turned in,' she said. 'When idiosyncratic is turned in, what are they atrocious for? Are they atrocious they got caught? Or are they genuinely repentant of what they did?'
The brace person tangled implicit this successful tribunal successful the past, arsenic successful 2005 she sued him and wanted him to wage $50,000 to screen therapy costs.
Morris, done an attorney, accused her of 'seeking out' the pastor's intersexual advances and tried to get her to motion an NDA successful speech for $25,000. She did not instrumentality the deal.
The pastor was a portion of Trump's 'evangelical advisory board' for his 2016 statesmanlike run and visited Gateway successful 2020 for a sheet discussion.
A connection connected behalf of Gateway Church's different leaders and elders besides effort to absolve Morris.
'Pastor Robert has been unfastened and forthright astir a motivation nonaccomplishment helium had implicit 35 years agone erstwhile helium was successful his twenties and anterior to him starting Gateway Church. He has shared publically from the pulpit the due biblical steps helium took successful his lengthy restoration process,' they said.
Morris, however, did not pb the religion successful services connected Saturday and the religion has made nary statements and fixed nary interviews successful effect to the resurfaced allegations.
The brace person tangled implicit this successful tribunal successful the past, arsenic successful 2005 she sued him and wanted him to wage $50,000 to screen therapy costs
Morris, done an attorney, accused her of 'seeking out' the pastor's intersexual advances and tried to get her to motion an NDA successful speech for $25,000. She did not instrumentality the deal
'At this clip we are not granting interviews oregon providing further statements,' Lawrence Swicegood, executive manager of Gateway Media, said successful a statement.
Clemishire has hired Boz Tchividjian to correspond her successful a caller imaginable lawsuit, according to WFAA. Tchividjian is evangelist Billy Graham's grandson.
'My anticipation and supplication is for each of this to beryllium good. For the church, for God's glory, and for different victims to find freedom,' she said.
Morris was ne'er criminally charged and the statute of limitations connected specified a lawsuit has agelong since ran out.
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