Robert Morris, the former pastor who founded a Texas megachurch, pleaded guilty on Oct. 2 to child sexual abuse charges stemming from incidents that date back to the 1980s in Oklahoma.
Morris, 64, pleaded guilty before Osage County District Special Judge Cindy Pickerill to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child.
He was handed a 10-year suspended prison sentence, with six months to be served in the Osage County Jail, according to the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office.
The charges stemmed from abuse that began in 1982, when Morris, then a traveling evangelist, visited the victim’s family in Hominy, Oklahoma, the attorney general’s office stated. The victim, Cindy Clemishire, was 12 at the time, and the abuse continued over the next four years….