Robert Morris, the former priest in Texas Miguch and Trump’s advisor, was accused of children’s sexual crimes

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Robert Morris, a Megachhorch sponsor in the Dallas area, which resigned last year amid the allegations of sexual assault, in Oklahoma with sex crimes of children dating back to the eighties.

Morris is a former spiritual advisor to President Donald Trump, and it was a gate – one of the largest in the country – especially active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “round table to move to greatness” there attended by the then -prosecutor at the time William Bar and other prominent Republicans.

The Office of the Prosecutor in Oklahoma said in a press statement on Wednesday evening that Morris faces five charges of obscene or inappropriate work with a child.

The indictment comes less than a year after Maurice resigned from the Gitayi Church in Southerke after an adult woman, Celemishire, Maurice said repeatedly and sexually assaulted her while she was a child in Oklahoma in the 1980s. Morris was at the time working as a mobile preacher.

In a text message on Wednesday, Clemishire said through a lawyer that she was grateful for the accusations.

She said: “After nearly 43 years, the law finally took place with Robert Morris due to the horrific crimes he committed as a child,” she said. “Now, it is time for the legal system to carry. My family and I am very grateful to the authorities who worked tirelessly to make this day possible and remain in the hope that justice will prevail in the end.”

Clemishire was revealed as the religious community in Dallas was still reeling from a handful of recent sexual assault scandals. Since then, at least dozens of churches or priests in the Dallas region have been accused of association or hiding sexual misconduct-allegations that have moved some of the most prominent leaders and institutions of the region.

Few, if any, they were more amazing than Morris, who participated steadily in national and national policy after the establishment of a gate in 2000. In 2017, Morris was exploited by the governor of Greg Abbott to help support the alleged so-called “pigeon bill” that sought to ban people who are suspended from using a preferred pigeon-partly to allow children to allow sexual.

During the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, Morris was among three other religious leaders in the Dallas region who served in the evangelical council of Trump. In 2021, Morris was part of an attempt to mobilize conservatives and Evangelists before Trump’s presidential show of 2024.

With Maurice’s national political lights growth, as well as the imprint of his local church. For years, Morris and Putawi will present the lists of candidates for the board of directors of local schools on the huge church screens in the period before the elections – the federal rules that prohibit public political activity by churches will be violated.

“Many of you see what Satan is trying to do even in our school systems,” Morris told some of 25,000 members of the church In 2023Before presenting a list of Republican candidates.

Since then, these tactics have been repeated in nearby gatherings, such as the Church of Culture of Mercy. The Fort Worth Church was established with financial support from Gateway, and it has become an essential element in the local republican circles, and it is often host Local Republicans elected And the head of the Republican Party Texas.

Representative Nate SChatzline, R-Fort Worth, is also a shepherd in the culture of mercy. Chatzeline was among many Republican legislators who called Maurice to resign after Clemencehire last summer.

Representative Jeff Leach, R. Dallas, joined these calls, and pledged to use this legislative session to follow up on draft laws that would give more rights to victims of childhood sexual assault-including the extension of the time period that victims must submit lawsuits against the attackers or those who enabled them.

In this session, multiple invoices were offered that would expand civil laws to restrict, allowing those such as the Clemeshire to prosecute those responsible for their attacks and compensate them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in lifelong costs associated with childhood abuse.

In a text message on Wednesday, Clemishire Boz Tchividjian’s lawyer said that she works behind the scenes with defenders of such repairs. “I don’t know if they had reached the point of martyrdom,” he said. “But I have no doubt that it will do it when that time comes.”

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