AUSTRALIA
TVNZ
The leader of the Hillsong Church has broken his silence on his paedophile father, addressing his 3000 strong congregation in New South Wales.
Brian Houston told his followers it was wrong of him not to report his father to police, but said other church leaders also knew and did nothing.
Giving his first sermon since testifying last week at the Australian Royal Commission on Child Sexual Abuse, Mr Houston said no-one told him to report his father.
“You had a situation where this was the first time I had ever heard about my father’s abuses. There was a victim, a survivor, who was adamant he did not want a police investigation and he didn’t want a church investigation,” he said.
Mr Houston was told in 1999 that his pastor father Frank had molested a boy in a Sydney household in the 1970’s.
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