Morris resigned in June after admitting to the incident which allegedly occurred on Christmas Day 1982

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.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    36·
    4 months ago

    Ex-fucking-excuse me? Not just victim blaming, but victim blaming a child? I fucking hate living on this planet. Just launch me into the sun already.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      21·
      4 months ago

      The child rapist has literally no defense, so his lawyer is trying the “she was asking for it” card.

      The sad part is that this is not a ceiminal case, as there was a statue of limitations back when he was raping her. There no longer is, but that doesnt help her. All she can do is sue him civally. Still, “the 12 year old in pajamas was asking for it” is not gonna help here.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Lawyers are obligated to defend even obviously guilty people, but seriously? Victim blaming a child?

        I get it, it’s hard to come up with a tenable legal defense when someone is starkly guilty, but this is just gross.

        • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          Yeah thanks for pointing out something that sort of tickled my brain for a while now and made the thought full formed. I’m going to start pointing this out because it is WILD that we have a culture of saving children from the predators and then also blaming children for being preyed on. And it’s just the one side.

          How much hypocrisy can someone swallow ffs???

    • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
      20·
      4 months ago

      When I see the most depraved defense from lawyers like this it just tells me that the person is so fucking guilty that I now suspect them guilty of even more than we know.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 months ago

      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?

      • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          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.

          • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            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.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        4·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          3·
          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.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
          3·
          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.