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Sydney, Australia CNN —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. Brian Houston learned of the abuse decades later and informed Church leaders but did not tell police. His father admitted the abuse and was defrocked, but was never charged and died in 2004. He founded the Hills Christian Life Centre with his wife Bobbie in Sydney in 1983, which grew into the Hillsong megachurch. Houston stepped down as Hillsong’s global senior pastor in January last year after police charged him with concealing his father’s crimes.
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Brian Houston, the founder and former leader of the global megachurch Hillsong, was acquitted Thursday in Sydney, Australia, of a charge connected to failing to report his father’s sexual abuse of a child. Mr. Houston had faced one count of concealing a serious indictable offense for another person. Mr. Houston pleaded not guilty and told a court in Sydney that he did not report the assault because the victim did not want it reported. When Mr. Houston learned of his father’s offense, which had occurred in the 1970s, he alerted church leadership but did not report the assault to the police. His father, Frank Houston, who also was a pastor, died in 2004.
Persons: Brian Houston, Houston, Houston’s, Frank Houston, Gareth Christofi Organizations: Hillsong Locations: Sydney, Australia, New South Wales
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