Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris resigns amid allegations of child sexual abuse WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who admitted he was involved in “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a 12-year-old girl, resigned Tuesday, according to a news release.

The Gateway Church Board of Elders said they accepted Morris’ resignation on Tuesday and hired the law firm Haynes and Boone to investigate the allegations, WFAA-TV reported.

The alleged victim is an Oklahoma woman now in her 50s, according to The Dallas Morning News. She said the alleged abuse by Morris, 62, the pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, began on Christmas 1982 and continued until 1987, WFAA reported.

Morris has not been criminally charged, according to the Morning News. The victim said that Morris was already married with a child when their families met in 1981, the newspaper reported.

The alleged abuse ended when the victim told a friend what happened and then revealed it to her parents after she was encouraged by her friend to tell them, …