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Robert Morris, the former Texas megachurch pastor who founded Gateway Church, has pleaded guilty to charges of sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s.
Appearing in an Oklahoma courthouse on Thursday, the 64-year-old, who resigned from the church last year after the woman accused him of abusing her decades earlier, pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, court documents show.
The abuse began in December 1982 when Morris was a traveling evangelist visiting the family of Cindy Clemishire, who was 12 years old at the
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