Morris resigned in June after admitting to the incident which allegedly occurred on Christmas Day 1982

Lawyers for Donald Trump’s former faith advisor Robert Morris accused a 12-year-old girl of initiating “inappropriate” sexual conduct with the ex-Dallas megachurch  pastor, new documents have revealed.

Morris resigned in June after admitting to the incident. His accuser Cindy Clemishire previously claimed that the pastor had begun abusing her on Christmas Day in 1982.

Clemishire, now 52, said that Morris and his wife had been staying at her family home at the time when he asked her to come into his room, whereafter he told her to lay on his bed and then began touching her inappropriately.

She said the abuse had continued until 1987 when she told her parents.

However, 25 years after the incident, a lawyer for Morris – J Shelby Sharpe – claimed that it was the child who was actually to blame.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The fact that this post has a downvote is legitimately worrying to me. I really hope that’s not someone who disagrees with this statement.

        • stoly@lemmy.world
          14·
          4 months ago

          libertarianism is also where I went. There are some people who think contrary to whatever appears in front of them, however.

        • barsquid@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 months ago

          MAGAs’ core principles are bigotry and oppositional defiant disorder. They have a mental disorder compelling them to make the out-groups angry. So of course they spread to places where people hate them, including Lemmy.

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          lemm.ee has a conservative community that’s full of some of the most dense individuals I’ve seen on here. It’s quite fun watching them twist themselves into knots when faced with dissenting opinions over there.

    • cygnus@lemmy.ca
      15·
      4 months ago

      Whoever downvoted has definitely used the word “ephebophilia” unironically int he past.

    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      15·
      4 months ago

      We can see who did but that being said, I’ve downvoted posts many times before by accident. It’s very easy to do when scrolling, it was most likely that.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      People genuinely are twisted about sex and age and consent, and there is no truer view into our massive flaws as a species. That we have anyone at all in this age and at this point in our evolution targeting children for self-gratification tells me all I need to know about the Fermi Paradox. We are NOT an advanced species. The very worst of us represents all of us.