Recorded: Day 88 (9th October 2014), Day 89 (9th October 2014), and Day 265 (24-03-2017)
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Between 2013 and 2017 the Australian Federal Government held a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
49 case studies were examined. This and adjacent video files in this playlist relate to multiple abuse cases within the Australian Christian Churches (previously the Australian Assemblies of God), of which Pastor Brian Houston from Hillsong Church was the National President from 1997-2009.
The Royal Commission's report found that Brian Houston failed to manage a conflict of interest in the crimes of his father Pastor Frank Houston's abuse of up to 9 boys in Australia and New Zealand. The Commission found the ACC failed to implement its own procedures for reports of abuse, did not report the abuse to the police, did not interview the victims, did not interview Frank Houston and did not disclose truthfully the reasons for Frank Houston's retirement to congregants.
As a result of his testimony in this case study, Brian Houston has been charged by the police with concealment of child sexual offences, and is at time of writing (Jan 2022) awaiting trial before the NSW courts. Brian Houston was stood down as the 'Global Senior Pastor' in January 2022, after earlier being stood down from all Hillsong Board positions in late 2021.
This footage is reproduced with the express permission of the Records Department of the Attorney General's Department of Australia.
Transcripts of the testimony and the Commission's findings are available at the RC website:
www.childabuseroyalcommission...