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Rules were set aside by the executive of the Pentecostal movement when it came to dealing with allegations against confessed pedophile Frank Houston, the father of Hillsong senior pastor Brian Houston.
And the executive left it to Brian Houston to make decisions about his father, a national inquiry into child sexual abuse has been told.
Keith Ainge, former national secretary of the Assemblies of God, an umbrella body for the Pentecostal churches, said on Thursday that Brian Houston was the only conduit for information to the executive about allegations against his father.
The church elder told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that the first the national executive heard of allegations against Frank Houston was when his son Brian Houston called a special meeting of the executive on December 22, 1999.
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