Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Maryland, and author of 'They Came for the Schools.'
Robert Morris has resigned as senior pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, three days after confessing to engaging in “sexual behavior” with a child in the 1980s. The board of elders at Gateway made the announcement Tuesday in a statement to NBC News.
Morris, known nationally as a member of former President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisory committee, had long told a story to his congregation and church leaders about a “moral failure” involving sexual sin when he was in his 20s. He did not describe the person involved other than to call her a “young lady.” But last week, Cindy Clemishire, now 54, alleged in a post on the church watchdog site The Wartburg Watch that she was 12 when Morris began sexually abusing her in 1982.
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