March 19, 2025      2:51 PM

After an emotional hearing, Texas House Judiciary Committee votes unanimously to advance banning use of NDAs in child sex abuse cases

Child abuse survivor Cindy Clemshire testified just days after former megachurch pastor turned himself in

Just days after former Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris turned himself in on five counts of abusing a child, the woman he abused and other abuse survivors testified in favor of a bill that would bar the use of nondisclosure agreements for victims of sexual abuse, assault, and human trafficking.

Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Chairman Jeff Leach’s House Bill 748, known as Trey’s Law, is named after the late Dallas resident Trey Carlock, who was abused by a counselor at the popular Christian camp Kanakuk in Missouri and signed a nondisclosure agreement in his settlement. He committed suicide in 2019. Kanakuk Kamps has been accused by multiple families of concealing sexual abuse.

His sister, Elizabeth Phillips of Dallas, said her brother called his payment “blood money to Kanakuk.”

By James Russell

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