Robert Morris, the founder of Southlake-based Gateway Church, one of the nation's largest congregations, is scheduled to appear before a judge Friday in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on charges of sexually abusing a child in the 1980s . Authorities say the victim, Cindy Clemishire, was 12 when the alleged abuse began.

Robert Preston Morris, the founder of Dallas-area megachurch Gateway who is charged with child sex abuse, made an initial court appearance at the Osage County Courthouse on Friday. His preliminary hearing was set for Sept.

The disgraced former Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris made his first appearance before a judge on Friday morning in an Oklahoma court, facing charges of sexual abuse of a child in the 1980s. Though Morris's appearance in the Osage County Courthouse in Pawhuska,