AUSTRALIA
9 News
Damian Ryan
With fire and brimstone he preached the word of God and condemned the evils of sin.
But throughout all of that, preacher Frank Houston reportedly lived a shocking lie, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard today.
“I remember he would be touching me in inappropriately… I would be petrified I would lay very still,” one of his victims, who can only be identified as AHA, told the commission.
AHA was aged seven when Frank Houston would come to his room, lie upon him, fondle him and masturbate him, he told the commission.
But the pastor was considered royalty within Australia’s Pentecostal ministry in the 1970s and would go on to see his son, Brian, found the multi-million dollar Hillsong success story.
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