Pastor Robert Morris applauds during a roundtable discussion at Gateway Church Dallas Campus, June 11, 2020, in Dallas, Texas. Alex Brandon/AP

Pawhuska, Oklahoma (AP) — The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said.

Robert Preston Morris, 64, entered the pleas before a judge in Osage County as part of a plea agreement, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a statement.

The alleged abuse began in 1982 when the victim was 12 and Morris was a traveling evangelist staying in Hominy, Oklahoma, with her family, according to the attorney general’s office. The abuse allegedly continued for f

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