Robert Morris, the well-connected megachurch pastor and former non secular adviser to President Donald Trump, was launched from prison in Oklahoma on Tuesday after serving a six-month stint for child sexual abuse fees.
According to CBS News, “an automated notice sent by court officials showed Morris left the jail in Pawhuska just after midnight. The Osage County Sheriff’s Office said Morris was released in the early morning hours due to safety concerns.”
Morris, who based the Gateway megachurch in Texas, was a distinguished political ally of the president in his first time period and a good friend to different conservative lawmakers. In 2020, throughout an occasion at Morris’ church, Trump touted the pastor as a “great” particular person with a “great reputation.”
Fast-forward to final October, when Morris pleaded responsible to 5 counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child within the Eighties towards Cindy Clemishire, who got here ahead in 2024 with allegations that Morris, her pastor in Oklahoma on the time, molested her when she was 12 years outdated. NBC News reported final March on the “frontier-era law” that Oklahoma’s legal professional basic used to cost Morris. The former pastor reached a plea settlement below which he was given a 10-year sentence however solely required to serve six months in jail, to register as a intercourse offender and to pay $250,000 in restitution.
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Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He beforehand wrote The ReidOut Blog.
