US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse

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’s 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 Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as a White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.