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Daily Telegraph
Hillsong church leader slams paedophile father William Francis ‘Frank’ Houston as ‘repulsive’ at child sex abuse royal commission
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 07, 2014
THE spiritual leader of Hillsong Church, Brian Houston, accused his father’s victim of sexual assault of “tempting” him as a seven-year-old boy.
“You know it’s your fault all of this happened. You tempted my father,” the victim, now 52, has claimed Brian Houston said to him.
The man said he replied: “Why, did he molest you also?” and Brian Houston became very angry and slammed down the phone.
The man, whose identity has been suppressed, said this conversation happened in early 2000 after his mother had told the church about how Frank Houston, a pioneer of the evangelical movement, had sexually abused her son for some years from the age of 7 or 8 until he reached puberty.
He said he had agreed to meet “Pastor Frank” at the McDonalds restaurant at Thornleigh because he was sick of him calling him for forgiveness because he was afraid what would happen when he died.
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