Involving his father.
The Royal Commission into Child Abuse has found that Hillsong Church head Brian Houston ignored conflict of interest when dealing with sexual abuse claims made against his father, Frank Houston, some years ago.
The Australian-based church has gone global with its music empire — topping charts around the world — and last year their Music Publishing Manager was ranked as the 36th most powerful person in the Australian music industry.
According to ABC, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse was last year told that Brian Houston had run an investigation into the Sydney Christian Life Centre in 1999, where his father who was a senior pastor at the church, had confessed to abusing a boy in New Zealand 30 years earlier.
Houston's father was reportedly suspended from preaching but the police were never called.
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The commission concluded that Houston's actions were a conflict of interest seeing that it involved his father and in doing so, the church ignored its own policies.
The commission found that "Pastor Brian Houston told the Royal Commission that he did not think he had a conflict of interest because he never attempted to defend his father from the allegations and he acted swiftly to suspend his credential."
"We do not accept the views expressed by pastor Brian Houston."
In a prepared statement, Hillsong Church said, "It is easy to look back many years in hindsight, however Pastor Brian acted in the best way he felt at the time and took decisive and immediate action against his own father."
Frank Houston had retired from the church before the abuse became public knowledge. He died in 2004.