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Texas megachurch Pastor Robert Morris lawyers tried to blasted nan 12-year-old woman who accused him of battle for nan intersexual abuse, ineligible documents person claimed.
Morris, 62, nan laminitis and elder pastor of Gateway Church successful Southlake - 1 of nan largest megachurches successful nan state - has been accused of sexually abusing erstwhile family friend Cindy Clemishire successful nan 1980s, erstwhile she was conscionable 12 years old.
The erstwhile belief advisor to Donald Trump resigned from nan megachurch aft admitting to abusing Clemishire, who went nationalist past period pinch her allegations successful a blog station connected The Wartburg Watch, a website dedicated to exposing maltreatment successful churches.
Correspondence obtained by NBC News shows 25 years aft nan alleged abuse when Clemishire hired an lawyer and threatened to writer Morris, his lawyer responded by blaming nan 12-year-old for what happened.
'It was your customer who initiated inappropriate behaviour by coming into my client’s chamber and getting successful furniture pinch him, which my customer should not person allowed to happen,' Morris' lawyer J. Shelby Sharpe wrote successful a February 6, 2007 response.
Legal documents show Texas megachurch Pastor Robert Morris lawyers tried to blasted nan 12-year-old woman who accused him of battle for nan intersexual abuse
Cindy Clemishire (pictured) claimed Morris abused her successful nan 1980s, erstwhile she was conscionable 12 years old
The missive was 1 successful a bid of exchanges that twelvemonth betwixt Sharpe and Clemishire's lawyer Gentner Drummond, from erstwhile she was seeking $50,000 successful restitution to screen nan costs of counseling.
Morris countered pinch an connection of $25,000, but negotiations stopped because Clemishire was not consenting to motion a nondisclosure agreement, NBC News reported.
Clemishire alleged that Morris' maltreatment began erstwhile he stayed astatine her family location successful Tulsa connected Christmas 1982.
She described a segment successful which Morris asked her to travel to his room and speak pinch him, asking her to laic connected his bed.
Morris began to touch her inappropriately, pinch Clemishire alleging he touched her stomach, past her bosom and past nether her pants.
She added that aft nan alleged maltreatment occurred, Morris 'told maine I could ne'er show anyone, because it would ruin everything,' and that he would proceed to isolate her and maltreatment her for nan adjacent four-and-a- half years earlier she yet said out.
Decades aft nan alleged maltreatment erstwhile Clemishire hired an lawyer and threatened to writer Morris, his lawyer responded by blaming nan 12 twelvemonth aged for what happened
Morris is nan laminitis and elder pastor of Gateway Church (pictured) successful Southlake - 1 of nan largest megachurches successful nan country
Morris had antecedently admitted to 'inappropriate intersexual behaviour pinch a young lady' without specifying nan property of Clemishire, who says nan maltreatment went from 1982 to 1987 erstwhile he was joined to his woman Debbie (right)
Over 2 decades later January 30, 2007, Drummond wrote to Sharpe connected behalf of Clemishire detailing nan intersexual maltreatment and really Morris 'led her to judge that they were having a typical narration that had to stay secret.'
'Reverend Morris began sexually assaulting [Clemishire] who was past 12 years old,' Drummond wrote.
Sharpe responded a week later claiming Clemishire initiated intersexual interaction pinch Morris.
When contacted by NBC News, Sharpe denied knowing astatine nan clip that Clemishire had been a kid erstwhile Morris began engaging successful intersexual behaviour pinch her - contempt Drummond's first correspondence specifically stating she was 12 years old.
'I don’t ever retrieve seeing that,' Sharpe said. 'I tin show you that nan letters that you’ve seen, they speak for themselves. I will not amplify beyond those letters, because they speak for themselves.'
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