He said that years later, as a teenager, he was sent by his mother to Houston for counselling, because he was “running off the road with the law”. He told the court that following the first incident in January 1970 he was “repeatedly” raped by Frank Houston. At night, he came into Sengstock’s room and sexually assaulted him while he was sleeping, placing his hands on his genitals, masturbating him and inserting a finger into his anus.īrett Sengstock was the first witness called on Monday. In an opening statement, crown prosecutor Gareth Harrison told the court that in January 1970 Frank Houston, then a pastor with the Assemblies of God church, was visiting Sydney and stayed with the Sengstock family for a week. Sengstock has since waived his right to anonymity as a victim of child sexual abuse.
Houston has repeatedly maintained he did not report the allegation to police because Sengstock did not want that to happen. His trial, before magistrate Gareth Christofi, is set down for three weeks.
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Brian Houston’s father, Frank Houston, repeatedly raped and assaulted a young church member, Brett Sengstock, beginning when the boy was seven years old, in 1970.īrian Houston is on trial for failing to report the abuse to police after his father confessed in 1999 to sexually assaulting the boy.īrian Houston has pleaded not guilty to one count of concealing a serious indictable offence of another person.
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