Megachurch founder and former pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty to charges of sexual abuse stemming from an alleged incident in the 1980s in an Oklahoma court on Thursday (October 2), USA TODAY reports.

Morris, 64, entered guilty pleas for five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child and will serve six months in the Osage County Jail and nine years and six months on probation, according to a plea agreement outlined in a news release shared by Oklahoma Attorney General Getner Drummond . The former pastor will also have to register as a sex offender and pay the victim, Cindy Clemishire , $270,000 in restitution as part of the plea agreement.

Osage County Special Judge Cindy Pickerill accepted the plea deal after Clemishire acknowledged that she had been consulte

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