Morris immediately directed church staff to minimize her claims in a statement. "Robert Morris directed Gateway employees to release a statement that intended to minimize the severity of Cindy's claims in one final attempt to hide the truth," Willbanks said.

Gateway Church announced Saturday that a law firm it hired to conduct an internal investigation into its founder Robert Morris’ alleged sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl had finished its report. In response to the findings of Haynes Boone’s report,

Gateway Church removed four of its elders after receiving results of an internal investigation into the sexual abuse claims against founder Robert Morris, a church leader told the congregation on Saturday.