April Marciszewski, The Tulsa World, October 14, 2007
Oral Roberts University and its president’s wife, Lindsay Roberts, issued written statements Saturday saying that claims and accusations added to a lawsuit Friday are untrue.
A report attached to the lawsuit Friday contains allegations that Roberts, 51, spent a great deal of time with an underage male.
“I live my life in a morally upright manner and throughout my marriage have never, ever engaged in any sexual behavior with any man outside of my marriage as the accusations imply,” Roberts said in her statement.
“Allegations against me in a lawsuit yesterday are not true. They sicken me to my soul,” she said.
The lawsuit, as amended Friday, also added ORU’s board of regents as a defendant and contained a new legal claim that the board had neglected to oversee, authorize and supervise the conduct of the defendants ORU, President Richard Roberts and university administrators Mark Lewandowski, Wendy Shirk and Jeff Ogle, as evidenced by those parties allegedly
allowing a “convicted sexual deviant unrestricted access to the students of the university” as a “mentor” hired by Richard Roberts to work with students.
A written statement attributed to the university says, “The allegations that the university employed a sexual deviant are untrue.”