Dallas-area megachurch pastor Robert Morris resigns from Gateway Church after Wartburg Watch publishes sexual abuse allegations [Video]

DALLAS, Texas — The pastor of a Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.

Gateway Church’s board of elders said in a statement Tuesday that they’d accepted the resignation of Robert Morris, the church’s senior pastor and founder. The board said it hired a law firm to conduct an independent review to ensure they “have a complete understanding of the events” from 1982 to 1987.

The allegations came to light Friday on the religious watchdog blog The Wartburg Watch. Cindy Clemishire, Morris’ accuser, told The Dallas Morning Newsin an interview Saturday that she met Morris in 1981 when he was a traveling preacher and began preaching at her family’s church in Oklahoma. She said Morris, his wife, and his young son became close to her family. She said he stayed at her house in 1982 when he asked her to come to his …