Cindy Clemshire aged 12 when the pastor came on to her
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by phone Monday, Sharpe said that he had no recollection of the $25,000 settlement offer or NDA demand and that he no longer represents Morris.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.
Typical sexual abuser of minors BS
Millstone with his name on it, he should bring his pool floaties for it.
He is a two-fer here: a molesting pedophile and a liar to boot.
Not a good look. What an idiot. Can’t believe the lawyer has the audacity to even make that argument.
Morris was 21 in 1982.
Back in the late 70s I witnessed a couple proudly showing off their very attractive tall girl to a young man of 18 or so.”And she’s 13!”said the father. It was as though the parents had spotted a handsome stud for their young filly.
Strange behavior.
Not everyone matures at the same age;and not all parents have the child’s best interests in mind.
Sounds like the attorneys are just as complicit and guilty as the rapist pedophile.
It doesn’t matter how inappropriate a minor acts towards you; YOU are the adult!
You are in charge of your own actions.
You have control of the situation.
Pedophiles believe children have the same desires as grown ups.
Pedophiles see children as easily manipulated little adults.
Pedophiles never truly believe they have done anything wrong.
I concur 100% with you!
The sad thing is: Some abused children will spontaneously initiate disturbingly sexual behavior - because they've learned to do that to placate their abusers!
Regards,
Cindy Clemshire aged 12 when the pastor came on to her
When I was 17 I was friends with a family with a pair of daughters. I spoke to the girls but was talking to my friend’s kids. I did things with the family, like goofy golf and church parties and the like. One day the older girl said “Hey! It’s my birthday!” I asked her “ How old? 16? 17?” She answered, “No, thirteen.” I was rattled.6 years later after not seeing the family much at all I married her. That was 55 years ago. Still together.
I wish FR would learn the difference between pedophilia and hebophilia.
That’s right.
All sexual disfunctions are due to interruptions in healthy sexuality. Hebophilia is probably caused by the inability to hang around 12 year old girls when that person was 12 years old.
It’s kind of like a hole in one’s soul.
I always thought that a good answer until I read someone say they use their hands as well.
I now think the death penalty would be a better way to go.
I agree.
.... And her middle name was Lolita...
Good grief!
Right. Remember what Nancy Reagan suggested.
“Just say no”.
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