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A New Zealand church leader has been identified as a serial child sex abuser at a royal commission in Australia.

But before moving to Australia, ONE News has uncovered that Frank Houston was investigated by the Assembly of God Church here for molesting young boys.

For more than a decade he headed the Assembly of God churches in New Zealand.

In the 1990s he was the focus of an internal church investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against young boys. A former church pastor claims that investigation was covered up.

Across the Tasman, Frank Houston’s son Brian has been centre stage at a Royal Commission of Inquiry into child sex abuse.