Ah, Brian Houston. Fortunate to have inherited the Hillsong church from his pedophile father Frank, and now even more fortunate to have a judge on your side after covering up the old cunt’s activities…
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston has been found not guilty of concealing the crimes of his paedophile father.
Australian prosecutors had argued Brian Houston tried to cover up his father’s sexual abuse of a child in the 1970s.
The Church founder learned of the abuse only decades later and said he did not report it because the victim, by then an adult, did not want police involved.
Frank Houston, who died in 2004, is believed to have used his position as a pastor to abuse as many as nine boys. […]
Brian Houston found out about the abuse in 1999, and told Church leaders but not police.
Scum of the fucking EARTH. And now Frank and his worthless son have both got away with it. Supposedly the victim did say he didn’t want the police involved, which was enough to convince Brian to ignore his legal obligations to, you know, REPORT HIS DAD TO POLICE FOR BEING A PEDOPHILE:
But on Thursday, Magistrate Gareth Christofi ruled that Mr Houston had a “reasonable excuse” under the law not to tell authorities.
“I do not see any reason why a convenient excuse may not also be a reasonable one,” he said.
“It may be that in this case there is an alignment between the interest of Mr Sengstock and the interest of the Church.”
How VERY bloody convenient to have a judge who sees things your way when it comes to ignoring the law. Frank lived for another five years after Brian found out what he’d done, he could still have faced justice for it. I’ll bet his victims back in New Zealand will be looking at this with as much disgust as the aforementioned Mr Sengstock, the artist hitherto known as “victim AHA” in media reports…
