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HILLSONG senior pastor Brian Houston says it may never be known how many children his father Frank Houston abused.
On his final day of giving evidence at a royal commission into how Pentecostal churches responded to complaints of child sexual abuse, the popular Sydney preacher was asked if he now accepted his father had abused other children in New Zealand.
“I’ve no doubt, and we probably do not know how many. We may never know just how far it went,” he told the national inquiry on Friday.
Brian Houston outside the The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual
For the past four days, the focus of the hearing has been on how Brian Houston and the body he led — the Assemblies of God (AoG) — responded to revelations in 1999 that church elder and well-known preacher Frank Houston had abused a boy in Sydney in the 1970s. Frank Houston had confessed to his son of just one incident with that boy.
But the victim, now in his 50s, told the commission there were many assaults on him by Frank Houston, who died in 2004.
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