A Sydney court on Thursday acquitted the founder of global megachurch Hillsong of covering up child sexual abuse committed by his father in the 1970s.
The Downing Centre Local and District Court ruled that Brian Houston, 69, had followed the wishes of his father’s victim Brett Sengstock by not reporting the crimes to police. He was acquitted on one charge of concealing an indictable offense. “A lot of people’s lives have been tragically hurt, and for that I’ll always be very sad. But I am not my father. I did not commit this offence,” Houston told reporters outside court on Thursday.
Houston maintained in court that he did not report the abuse to authorities because by the time he found out in 1999, Sengstock was an adult and did not want the police involved. Influential figure One of Australia’s most influential religious figures, Brian Houston was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He founded the Hills Christian Life Centre with his wife Bobbie in Sydney in 1983, which grew into the Hillsong megachurch.
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