Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris, who Donald Trump once named as a spiritual adviser to his administration, announced he was stepping down from Gateway Church amid allegations he molested a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.

The resignation comes days after Morris, 62, seemingly admitted to molesting the girl in a statement to The Christian Post. In that statement, he conceded that he engaged in “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a “young lady” when he was already married with a child in his early 20s.

Morris didn’t mention the girl’s age—but his alleged victim, Cindy Clemishire, told the religious watchdog blog The Wartburg Watch on Friday that she was only 12 when she was first sexually abused by Morris on Christmas Day in 1982. She claimed that he invited her into the room he was staying in at her family home during a visit, and touched her inappropriately on her breasts and “under her panties.”

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      5 months ago

      Hell they’ll even move you into another community to do it again.

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        Not even a good joke, sadly its very real.

        I went to a catholic school, very small had like 15 people in a grade for the most populated grades. Usually 2 grades in a classroom. A nun was the principle and we had a priest for the church and some religion classes.

        One day the priest was removed and we were all told he went back to Ireland.

        Years later when the catholic church was raked over the coals, the dirty deeds were spelled out in the news paper.

        That priest was moved from small town USA, Chewelah Washington, to a bigger city, Spokane, to remove him from allegations of sexual abuse. He continued those abuses at the School he was reassigned to!!

        https://www.bishop-accountability.org/accused/o-malley-james-j-1946/

        The guy who baptized me and my brother and sister. The guy I considered next to Jesus. The guy I told all my childhood sins to.

        Fuck that guy, I hope he is in hell.