AUSTRALIA
Sunshine Coast Daily
Emma McBryde | 23rd Nov 2015
A SENIOR pastor failed to act protectively towards a young teen who was sexually abused at the hands of a youth pastor because the youth pastor was dating the senior pastor’s daughter, an inquiry has found.
Only a few months after Sunshine Coast senior pastor Dr Ian Lehmann hired Jonathan Baldwin in 2004 to head the church’s youth ministry, Baldwin began sexually abusing a 13-year-old who attended the church.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard the abuse continued for two years.
Only two days before Baldwin married Dr Lehmann’s daughter he forced the teenager, known during the inquiry as ALA, to perform oral sex on him.
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