AUSTRALIA
Courier-Mail
BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL AAP OCTOBER 17, 2014
A YOUNG man abused as a boy by a Pentecostal pastor says attempts by leaders of the movement to justify themselves at a royal commission have made him even angrier.
HIS statement was read on the fifth day of a hearing into how a Queensland church and the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) handled allegations youth pastor Jonathan Baldwin sexually abused the boy for two years from 2004 to 2006.
“The past 10 years of my life have been a living hell,” he said.
The young man, given the pseudonym ALA, said the local church and the ACC “utterly failed to acknowledge, take responsibility, support and help my family and I anywhere near an acceptable level”.
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