AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
By RACHEL BROWNE Oct. 10, 2014
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston told a royal commission that there may be more victims of his paedophile father Frank Houston who have yet to come forward.
In his final day of evidence, the evangelical preacher told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of learning the extent of his father’s alleged predatory acts in the 1960s and 1970s.
He told the commission he first became aware of allegations of abuse in 1999 but learned in 2000 there were further claims involving six boys in New Zealand.
When asked by counsel assisting, Simeon Beckett, whether he accepted that Frank Houston had abused other children, Brian Houston responded: “We probably don’t know how many. We may never know how far it went.”
Frank Houston, founder of the City Christian Life Centre which merged with the Hills Christian Life Centre to become Hillsong Church, died in 2004 without being charged with any offence.
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