Robert Morris Resigns From Gateway Church After Victim Says Church Knew
Cindy Clemishire, the woman who accused Robert Morris of sexually assaulting her beginning at age 12 says he told her to keep quiet.
Source: Roys Report
Just days after allegations surfaced that he molested a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s, Pastor Robert Morris has resigned from his Dallas megachurch, Gateway Church.
In a statement released to media today, Gateway claimed it did not know the age of Morris’ victim and the length of her abuse.
But in a statement just released to The Roys Report (TRR), the victim, Cindy Clemishire, said she confronted Morris about the abuse in an email sent in 2005. Clemishire added that former Gateway Elder Tom Lane responded to Clemishire’s email, “acknowledging that the sexual abuse began on December 25, 1982, when I was 12 years old.”
In its statement, Gateway’s board of elders said: “The elders’ prior understanding was that Morris’s extramarital relationship, which he had discussed many times throughout his ministry, was with ‘a young lady’ and not abuse of a 12-year-old child.”
The elders added that they did not know the victim’s age or the length of the alleged abuse.
“Even though it occurred many years before Gateway was established, as leaders of the church, we regret that we did not have the information that we now have.”