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Another North Texas pastor reportedly removed. Lawyer says accusations are false

Truck drivers deliver grain from the silos in Saginaw to mills and other customers.
Seth Bodine
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Fort Worth Report
Truck drivers deliver grain from the silos in Saginaw to mills and other customers.

Another North Texas pastor has been removed from his leadership position 鈥 but his lawyer says he was wrongfully let go, .

Scott Crenshaw, senior pastor at Lake Country Church in Saginaw north of Fort Worth, was fired about two weeks ago after church elders claimed Crenshaw was looking at inappropriate images online, .

鈥淗e has been discharged because of extreme false rumors and false information that was given to the elders of this church, who did not engage in any investigation at all,鈥 Lane told the paper.

He has since been removed from the

This isn鈥檛 the first time Crenshaw's faced these kinds of allegations. In 2016, he was at New River Fellowship Church after 鈥渧iewing inappropriate images鈥 on his work computer.

Lake Country Church declined to comment to 四虎影院.

Crenshaw's firing comes after a string of high-profile pastors in recent months were removed from their positions amid allegations of 鈥渕oral failures,鈥 鈥渋mmoral鈥 behavior and sexual abuse.

Among them was Gateway Church's former founding pastor Robert Morris, who was accused of sexually abusing Cindy Clemshire in the 1980s. Clemshire said the abuse began she was 12 years old and continued for nearly five years.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Penelope Rivera is 四虎影院's Breaking News Reporter. She graduated from the University of North Texas in May with a B.A. in Digital and Print Journalism.