{"id":70494,"date":"2026-03-31T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/us-megachurch-pastor-released-from-jail-after-pleading-guilty-to-child-sex-abuse\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:01:28","slug":"us-megachurch-pastor-released-from-jail-after-pleading-guilty-to-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/us-megachurch-pastor-released-from-jail-after-pleading-guilty-to-child-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Morris, who started Gateway church, pleaded guilty in October to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s<\/p>\n<p>The founder and former pastor of one of the US\u2019s largest megachurches has been released from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/oklahoma\">Oklahoma<\/a> jail six months after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/17\/robert-morris-trump-surrenders-child-sexual-abuse-charges\">Robert Morris<\/a>, 64, who started Texas\u2019s Gateway church and also once served as a White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump\u2019s first presidency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/03\/pastor-robert-morris-pleads-guilty\">pleaded guilty<\/a> in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/31\/robert-morris-jail-release-child-sexual-abuse-gateway-church\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Morris, who started Gateway church, pleaded guilty in October to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s The founder and former pastor of one of the US\u2019s largest megachurches has been released from an Oklahoma jail six months after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s. Robert Morris, 64, who started &#8230; <a title=\"US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/us-megachurch-pastor-released-from-jail-after-pleading-guilty-to-child-sex-abuse\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}