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Daily Mail (UK)

Hillsong founder met with church leaders ONE YEAR after being told of sex abuse allegations against his father

By Louise Cheer for Daily Mail Australia and Aap

It took a year for Hillsong leader Brian Houston to meet with the Pentecostal church about allegations his father had molested a seven-year-old boy.

The meeting came 12 months after Pastor Barbara Taylor had raised with state executives of the Assemblies of God the matter of Frank Houston’s abuse of the boy in Sydney almost 30 years earlier.

It took place at the Qantas Club at Sydney Airport three days before Christmas 1999 and was called by Hillsong pastor Brian Houston who also informed church leaders he had stood his father down, an inquiry has heard on Wednesday.