An Oklahoma district court judge is set to hear the beginning of the criminal case against former Gateway Church lead pastor Robert Morris on Thursday morning.
At the preliminary hearing in Osage County, the judge will determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence against Morris to proceed to trial, otherwise known as determining probable cause.
Morris was indicted in March on five felony charges of lewd or indecent acts to a child, the Star-Telegram previously reported. Those charges stem from accusations that Morris, who was in his 20s at the time, sexually abused Cindy Clemishire throughout the 1980s, beginning when the girl was 12 years old.
The indictment by a multicounty grand jury gives several dates between December 1982 and January 1985 on which Morris allegedly abused Clemishire…