Frank Houston going to jail for child sexual abuse ‘would always be a possibility’, son tells court

Hillsong founder Brian Houston avoids telling court whether he thought his father should have gone to jail

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The Hillsong founder, Brian Houston, has avoided telling a court whether he thought his father should have gone to jail after the elderly pastor confessed to sexually abusing a young boy.

Frank Houston admitted to his son he abused the boy, who was seven at the time, during a visit to his home in Sydney's Coogee in 1970.

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