AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
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By Annette Blackwell
Brian Houston, the senior pastor at Australia’s popular Hillsong Church, accused a child sex abuse victim of tempting his father Frank Houston, an inquiry has heard.
The royal commission into the response of Pentecostal churches to claims of child sexual abuse is hearing evidence of allegations made against the late Pastor Frank Houston, the man attributed with driving the evangelical movement in Australia from the 1970s when he and his son moved from New Zealand.
Today, a man known for legal reasons as AHA told the commission Frank Houston would stay with his family when he came to Sydney from New Zealand in the 1970s.
AHA was seven when Frank Houston would come to his room and sexually abuse him, he told the commission.
“I would wake up petrified and I would stay very still,” he said.
He said the abuse left him feeling ashamed, and he now suffered depression.
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