Texas megachurch pastor pleads guilty to child sexual abuse charges

Gateway Church founder Robert Preston Morris, 64, was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to five counts of child sexual abuse in Oklahoma.

He received a 10-year suspended sentence, including six months in jail, for abusing a 12-year-old girl in 1982 while working as a traveling evangelist.

The victim, Cindy Clemishire, said justice had “finally been served” and urged other survivors to speak out.

Oklahoma’s attorney general condemned Morris for exploiting his role as a pastor, Axios has reported.

Morris, who founded Gateway Church in 2000 and once served on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board, must register as a sex offender, serve supervised probation in Texas, and pay restitution and incarceration costs.