AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
A QUEENSLAND church has been accused of covering up a parishioner’s alleged sexual abuse of children, with a victim’s father threatened with death if he went to the police.
Police believe senior members of the evangelical church, including a pastor, have been actively influencing parents and the child victims not to report sexual abuse to authorities over the past year.
Allegations of the cover-up emerged after a Brisbane Magistrates Court bail hearing for the accused abuser, who was involved with the church’s youth choir and is facing 11 charges, including rape and indecent treatment of a child.
The Courier-Mail is prevented from naming the accused, who allegedly sexually abused four girls between 2010 and 2012, or identifying the church for legal reasons.
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