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Michael Sainato

Former Trump spiritual adviser faces charges of lewd acts with a child

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Robert Morris in 2020. He was a member of Trump’s spiritual advisory committee during his first presidential term. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

The Texas megachurch founder and pastor Robert Morris has been indicted on five criminal counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, from incidents that occurred in Oklahoma in the 1980s.

A multi-county grand jury issued an indictment on 12 March, which alleges Morris was a traveling evangelist visiting in Hominy, Oklahoma, with the family of the alleged victim in December 1982. The indictment alleges Morris’s sexual misconduct began that Christmas and continued over four years. The alleged victim was 12 years old at the time and Morris was 21 years old.

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