Brian Houston of Hillsong Is Charged With Concealing Child Sexual Abuse
From www.nytimes.com
2021-08-05 19:16:05
Yan Zhuang
Excerpt:
Brian Houston, co-founder and senior pastor of the global megachurch Hillsong, was charged by the Australian police on Thursday with concealing child sexual abuse carried out by his father in the 1970s.
In a statement, the police alleged that Mr. Houston, now 67, “knew information relating to the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s and failed to bring that information to the attention of police.”
Mr. Houston’s lawyer was served a notice for his client to appear in a court in…