Hillsong Founder Brian Houston has told a court he now has “no doubt” that his father Frank was a “serial paedophile”.
Hillsong founder Brian Houston has told a court that he tried to keep himself at “arm’s length” from a payment made to a man molested by his late father.
However, he maintained that there is “no evidence” his father continued to abuse minors after moving to Sydney and establishing his Christian Life Centre church – and by the time he learnt that his father had abused multiple children he believed he no longer posed a threat.Brook Mitchell Brian Houston has pleaded not guilty, and defending the charge on the grounds he had a “reasonable excuse” not to report what he knew to police, primarily because he says Sengstock did not want police involved.
The court was played a video of Houston preaching on Easter Sunday in 2002, telling the congregation his father had behaved in a “predatory manner” and it “involved victims”.