Disturbing news
surfaced last week that the founder and senior pastor of one of the
largest churches in Australia, and a church well known in this country
for its worship music, failed to report his father for sexually abusing
children. Brian Houston of Hillsong Church, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse
that in October of 1999, he learned that an adult had reported being
sexually abused as a child by leading Pentecostal pastor, Frank Houston.
The elder Houston was permanently suspended from preaching and given what The Australian newspaper and World magazine called a “retirement package”. The victim was sent $10,000. Eight more cases of child sexual abuse by Frank Houston were uncovered before he passed away in 2004. None of these cases were ever reported to law enforcement.
http://boz.religionnews.com/2014/10/17/hillsong-church-abuse-unreported-perpetrator-rewarded/
The elder Houston was permanently suspended from preaching and given what The Australian newspaper and World magazine called a “retirement package”. The victim was sent $10,000. Eight more cases of child sexual abuse by Frank Houston were uncovered before he passed away in 2004. None of these cases were ever reported to law enforcement.
http://boz.religionnews.com/2014/10/17/hillsong-church-abuse-unreported-perpetrator-rewarded/
