Ex-trump spiritual counselor accused of abuse

Oklahoma City -a big jury in Oklahoma accused the founder of Texas Megachurch on Wednesday, Robert Morris, accusing five charges of lewd or indecent acts with a girl who started when he was 12 in the 1980s.

Robert Morris, who once was the president’s spiritual counselor Donald Trump, resigned as the main pastor of the Gateway church in June After recognizing “improper sexual behavior” in the 1980s. His accuser said he was 12, when Morris abused him for the first time of Christmas in 1982, during a visit to her home in Homination. He was 21 years old.

“After almost 43 years, the law eventually caught Robert Morris for the horrible crimes he committed against me as a child,” said Cindy Clemishire after the indictment was made public.

The great multiculent jury of the state returned the indictment on Wednesday, after hearing two days of testimony in secret sessions. The big jurors accused Morris 63 years ago, with five lewd or indecent accusations for a child.

The big jurors claimed that the crimes began when the girl was 12 years old and continued while 13 and 14 years old. The lawyer of the former pastor of Oklahoma, Mack Martin, refused the comment.

Prosecutor General Gentner Drummond, whose assistants advise the big jury, said that “there can be no tolerance for those who sexually prey to children.” His assistants said that time restrictions on the criminal prosecution of sexual crimes do not apply, because Morris did not live in Oklahoma at any time.

Morris acknowledged that he made offenses after his accuser spoke to the name at Wartburg WatchA blog about sexual abuse within the church. In the statements to the media of 2024, Morris said he was involved in the early 20s in “Improper sexual behavior with a young lady in a house in which I stayed.”

“He kissed and came into contact, but it was wrong. This behavior happened several times in the next few years. In March 1987, this situation was brought to light and was confessed and repented by.”

Clemishire, now 55 years old, told the USA Today last year that he had publicly presented to encourage others who could be victims to tell her stories.

“I always trusted that the moment of God will take her wherever she should have gone,” she said about Morris. – Why hide?

Clemheire told the blog that she and her family met Morris at a Tulsa youth rebirth, Oklahoma, when she was 20, and she was 11 years old. She described him as a traveler evangelist.

She said she was invited to make a youth rebirth in Homination and after regularly preaching at their church on Sunday. She said she often stayed at her family’s house, sometimes with her wife and son.

“Cindy looked at them as safe and friendly,” the blog reported. “Their families would often go on trips.”

She said she first abused Christmas sex after asking him to come to his room. She said she warned him afterwards: “Never tell anyone about it because it will ruin everything.”

“Robert Morris repeated this behavior until March 1987,” the blog reported. “This would happen in Texas and Oklahoma … Things changed when he was sixteen. He would get it in his car and try to have sex.”

Morris was then pastor at Shady Grove Church in Texas. She was removed from the ministry in 1987 for two years after Clemishire told a close friend and her parents what happened, according to the blog.

In 2000, Morris founded Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth. Would grow on multiple sites.

Morris had a television program that was broadcast in over 190 countries and a radio program that has been on air waves in more than 6,800 cities, according to a biography on the Gateway web site. Him YouTube pageWhich is no longer online, has had 80,000 subscribers and included videos with titles such as “Freedom through forgiveness” and “Did you know that you are perfect for God’s grace?”

Morris was on Trump’s spiritual advisory council during the 2016 campaign and the first term of his presidency. He did not play a role in the re -election effort in 2024, said Trump’s campaign last year.

The indictment will be submitted for criminal prosecution at the Osage County District Court. Morris is expected to turn next week.

The great jurors claimed in the indictment that he had reached it “in a remaining or lascivious manner” while she was 12 years old, the first time in Christmas 1982. They claimed to look at her private parts two days later after they removed their clothing.

The big jurors also claimed that he reached it patiently while he was 13 and 14. He is accused in the final number of rubbing against his foot over his clothes after he removed it while they were in a vehicle parked on a road in Osage County.

He is facing up to 100 years in prison if convicted of all five charges.

If you are a survivor of sexual assault, Rainn provides support through the national telephone line of sexual assault (800.656. online.rainn.org)