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Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations, admitted to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s.
By Jin Yu Young and Alexandra E. Petri
Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch with one of the nation’s largest congregations, pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s, according to court documents.
According to prosecutors, Mr. Morris, 64, began abusing Cindy Clemishire, who was 12 years old at the time, in 1982. He used his hands and body to touch her private parts on multiple occasions, prosecutors said, and the abuse lasted until she was 14.
