Overview
- Osage County records show Morris left the Pawhuska jail early Tuesday after serving six months under his plea to abusing Cindy Clemishire in the 1980s.
- In October 2025, he admitted to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child and received a 10-year suspended sentence with lifetime sex offender status and nine and a half years of probation.
- Court filings say he plans to live at his Palo Pinto County lakefront home during probation and must report to an officer and avoid alcohol, guns, and contact with felons.
- Clemishire and her father are pursuing a defamation and cover-up case against Morris and Gateway Church, and the suit is paused pending a mandamus review sought by the church and its elders.
- Morris has a separate lawsuit claiming Gateway promised him and his wife a $600,000 to $800,000 annual retirement package, and the church denies that claim and the Clemishires’ allegations.