DALLAS — An affidavit alleges a former Gateway Church volunteer molested three girls under the age of 14.
An arrest warrant was issued for Scott Gerber in April of 2023 and Gerber faces two counts of molesting a child under 14, Howard County, Indiana court records show.
Two former members of Gateway Church in Frisco told our content partners at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that Gerber served on the church’s altar prayer and prophetic teams.
The arrest warrant out of Howard County in Indiana detailed three instances in which Gerber allegedly molested children.
An alleged victim told investigators that Gerber was staying at a family member’s house in Indiana on Feb. 10, 2023, asked one of the girls to sit on his lap in a recliner and sexually assaulted the child, according to the document.
That child told family members about the alleged abuse, the affidavit shows. After the incident, Gerber was reportedly asked to leave the home.
Two other children told investigators that Gerber had them sit on his lap and would put his hands in their clothes and touch them, the affidavit alleges. The children told Gerber to stop, but he reportedly refused.
Gerber told the children not to tell anyone about him touching them, authorities alleged in the affidavit.
One of the girls told investigators Gerber molested her eight times, from when she was 2 up until she was 12 years old, the report details.
A family member confronted Gerber about the incidents, according to screen shots of text messages detailed in the affidavit.
“I deserve for you and your family to never consider me again,” Gerber wrote in one of the texts detailed in the affidavit. “No excuses. Shame and fear gripped me.”
A Gateway spokesperson told the Star-Telegram that Gerber had been a member, but never worked for the church.
“Scott did attend Gateway Church and when we learned he was under investigation in another state, we ask him not to return until the allegations were investigated and his name was cleared,” a Gateway spokesperson told the newspaper.
Gerber’s trial is set for October. Gerber’s arrest came within months of the resignation of Gateway’s former senior pastor and founder Robert Morris. Morris resigned in June after admitting to sexually abusing a woman in the ‘80s. Cindy Clemishire, the accuser, told WFAA the abuse started when she was 12 and continued until 1987.
More recently, earlier this month, a former Gateway pastor, Kemtal Glasgow, was fired over a “moral issue.”
