Posted on 07/12/2024 9:55:25 PM PDT by Morgana
More details have emerged regarding the sex abuse committed by Robert Morris on a 12 year old girl beginning in 1982. Robert Morris would go on to pastor Gateway Church, the largest megachurch in the United States. According to Morris, he stepped back into ministry with the blessing of Cindy Clemishire’s father who failed to report him to the police. Clemishire then alleges that Robert Morris offered her only $25000 to sign an NDA around 2005. More details have emerged from this negotiation including the remarks of Robert Morris’s lawyer who appears to blame a child for being molested.
NBC News reports:
“It was your client,” wrote lawyer J. Shelby Sharpe, referring to Clemishire at age 12, “who initiated inappropriate behavior by coming into my client’s bedroom and getting in bed with him, which my client should not have allowed to happen.”
The Feb. 6, 2007, letter was one in a series of exchanges that year between Sharpe and Gentner Drummond, a lawyer who represented Clemishire at the time. Clemishire said in an interview last week she had been seeking $50,000 in restitution from Morris to cover the cost of counseling. Morris, through his lawyer, instead offered to pay $25,000, but the talks fell apart, Clemishire said, because she was not willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Drummond, who is now Oklahoma’s attorney general, confirmed Clemishire’s description of the 2007 negotiations and declined to comment further.
J Shelby Sharpe denies knowing that Cindy CLimishire was a child at the time.
Reached by phone Monday, Sharpe said that he had no recollection of the $25,000 settlement offer or NDA demand and that he no longer represents Morris. He denied knowing at the time that Clemishire had been a child when Morris began engaging in sexual behavior with her. However, the initial correspondence Drummond sent to him stated clearly that Clemishire was “twelve years old” when the abuse began.
“I don’t ever remember seeing that,” Sharpe said after a reporter read the document to him. After a reporter offered to share a copy of the messages, Sharpe said he did not have time to read them and declined to share an email address.
Sharpe should have known Morris molested a child and most likely did as his alibi is not believable. This is the latest instance uncovered of people “not knowing” Robert Morris molested a child. The elders of Gateway Church claimed to “not know” even though Morris’s explanation which they had in a leaked internal memo gave several key indicators of the victim being a child. Likewise, it would be odd for a lawyer to make such counterarguments about “who initiated” before gathering the facts. What is clear, also, is that Robert Morris made a concerted effort to not tell people he molested a child even when referencing this situation.
Hebophiliacs are strictly limited to clearly pubescent females. 17 is the mean. Britney Spears excepted. A borderline girl is not even remotely attractive to hebophiliacs. The neurosis is a construct of Western psychologists trying to pigenhole what is perfectly normal male attraction into something to treat. Psychologist and psychiatrists covering 90% of the Worlds population do not even acknowledge it as neurotic.
Bump.
Morris was 21 in 1982.
And your point is?
50.
reading glasses were in another room.
I wish FR would learn the difference between pedophilia and hebophilia
Hebephilia is a sexual preference for children in early adolescence, between ages 11 and 14. (Psychology Today). Am I to assume you think hebephilia is acceptable? Because it’s NOT, no matter how many early settlers married 13 or 14 year old girls! The only time I could possibly think it’s ok is if the bridegroom was also 13 or 14, and we all know that was very rarely, if ever, the case.
Our granddaughter is a real beauty and always looked older than her age when she was in her teens.
One time she was flying back cross-country after visiting us and had a 3 hour layover on the trip. She was sitting outside the gate reading a book and a young military guy in fatigues sat down by her and started talking. She said they talked for over an hour about movies, music, etc. until finally he looked at her really close and asked, “How old are you?”.
She looked at him with a big smile on her face and said, “Fourteen!”.
She said he was just gone. He didn’t say goodbye or anything. He was just gone.
If you saw a photo of her at 14, you’d swear she was at least 18. Partially from the way she looked but also the way she acted. Never was the giddy/giggily schoolgirl type.
She’s 30 now and finishing up her Masters in Clinical Psychology. A really great kid.
I suggest you read this article. Pleasse don’t bother to extract a supportive sentence or two. You will waste your time.
Frankly, I find it considerably more criminally pathological that a man is sexually aroused by the sight of another mans penis or the thought (much less the act) of anal sex on another man. If you want to punish something unnatural, start with that. Then come and tell me how egregious it is that Britney Spears (age 15) aroused most of the adult male population.
I agree with your statement. I’ve heard/read several times that the brain’s development is not complete until about age 25.
Changing the subject to combat PTSD, a young soldier of about 18 or so experiencing the life & death horrors of war will have these horrors firmly implanted into him which creates a myriad of personality oddities.
A paralleling point could be made with a 12 yo made to do sex tricks. That kid will develop in such a way that she will have an equal amount of personality oddities when she becomes a fully developed adult.
No thoughts on the assassination attempt on Donald Trump?
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