The blast injured 21 people and temporarily closed several businesses.
Gateway Church was involved in lawsuits before child sex abuse allegations against the megachurch's founder and senior pastor Robert Morris surfaced
The plaintiffs sought damages of more than $200,000 but not more than $5,000,000, according to the lawsuit. The child’s mother filed a police report with the Haltom City Police Department when she became aware of the allegations, records show. “Regretfully, prior to Friday, June 14, the elders did not have all the facts of the inappropriate relationship between Morris and the victim, including her age at the time and the length of the abuse,” the Gateway Church board of elders said in a statement on the allegations against Robert. “The elders’ prior understanding was that Morris’ extramarital relationship, which he had discussed many times throughout his ministry, was with a ‘young lady’ and not abuse of a 12-year-old child.
The child’s parents contacted another Gateway employee in 2015, who said the child’s injury was the result of the boy’s second assault while in the program, according to the lawsuit. An agent of Gateway’s insurance company then told the child’s parents that Gateway had the video, but refused to provide it, according to the lawsuit.
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