AUSTRALIA
The Chronicle
Emma McBryde | 8th Oct 2014
A FATHER has criticised a Pentecostal church organisation for abandoning his family after a Sunshine Coast youth pastor sexually abused his son.
Two senior Australian Christian Churches’ executives will come before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse as it investigates the responses of the movement and its affiliated churches.
The Sunshine Coast church’s former senior pastor Ian Lehmann will also testify at the public hearing which began in Sydney on Tuesday.
Pastor Lehmann is accused of being slow to act after the allegations surfaced because the youth pastor, Jonathan Baldwin, was his son-in-law.
The victim, who cannot be named to protect his identity, was aged between 13 and 15 when he came to Baldwin for counselling and was abused on and off church premises.
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