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Lawyers for megachurch pastor blame 12-year-old for ‘initiating’ sexual contact (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You know, I'm only five years younger than him, and yet never in my life since I was about 12 years old myself has a 12-year-old so much as flirted with me. This 52-year-old is somehow irresistible to the middle schoolers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have had a 12 year old flirt with me. It was cute, and I wasn't tempted to molest her because I'm not insane.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's cute when a kid has a crush like that, but that's all it is, a crush. From someone who doesn't understand what romance is beyond what's in pop culture. It's cute and wholesome.

An adult seeing that and going "hmm, what if" is the exact fucking opposite of cute and wholesome. They're a freaky ass fella who needs to be locked up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I believe you, but I'm guessing it's not especially common for a girl as young as 12. They barely understand the concept of flirtation at that age, and these days they probably think they know about sex by seeing internet porn when their parents didn't know about it.

Anyway, like you said, it's pretty easy to just not touch the girl.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Providing just a small correction here. The child was 12 at the time, now 52.

Robert Morris (the accused sexual predator former pastor of the rapist, racist, sexist, traitor, “Christian”, beloved friend of Jeffrey Epstein, and convicted felon Donald Trump) was 22 at the time and now 62.

A 22 year old preying and praying on a 12 year old. Just so disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whoops. Sorry. And yeah, no 12-year-old ever flirted with me when I was 22 either. And if they did, I would be smart enough not to reciprocate even if I was interested, which I wouldn't have been.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No prob! I just had to internet search this pastor because I wanted to know just how old his gross ass was when he did that. I think most functioning persons in society would have the same mindset as you shared.