The move comes after the founder of a north Texas megachurch resigned following sexual abuse allegations
Robert Morris recently resigned amid allegations he sexually abused a girl in the 1980s, starting when she was 12 years old.
The Gateway Church Board of Elders accepted Morris’ resignation and hired the law firm Haynes and Boone to investigate the allegations.
State Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, says he’s already working on legislation that would increase the penalties for sex crimes against children.
“I just don’t think our local District Attorneys are clued into the law because any DA could have brought charges against someone from the Boy Scouts or Cub Scouts or a church for that matter,” Rep. Toth told us on Inside Texas Politics. “I want to raise the penalty so that our DAs understand that this is there, and they’ve got to start enforcing it and they’ve got to start …
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