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Disgraced former Gateway Church Pastor Robert Morris, who once led the largest church in America, surrendered to police yesterday, where he spent an hour in custody being processed before being released on a $50,000 bond. Morris was indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child and is facing a maximum of 100 years in prison, with each count carrying up to 20 years. He also surrendered his passport. In 1982, pastor Robert Morris began molesting 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire, initiating sexual contact with her that would continue for the next four and a half years. In 2005,...

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...