Hillsong Church has reached an 11th hour agreement to settle its lawsuit with a female parishioner over her indecent assault at the hands of a church employee.
The five-day trial was set to get underway in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday after Anna Crenshaw sued the Australian arm of the megachurch.
The civil case related to Ms Crenshaw’s indecent assault by a church staffer, Jason Mays, when she was 18-years-old.Hillsong, in its defence filed with the court, had denied that it acted negligently towards Ms Crenshaw and was set to defend the case. In a statement of claim, Ms Crenshaw said she was “sexually assaulted by whilst was an employee of the and in his capacity as a worship leader.”He was sentenced to a two-year conditional release order and no conviction was recorded.Mays, who was also a defendant, denied in his statement of defence that the indecent assault amounted to “sexual assault”.
Ms Crenshaw had alleged that as a result of negligence and breach of contract she suffered harm, injury and loss.The terms of the settlement had not been disclosed to the court.The state’s top cop has revealed plans to overhaul gun handling rules following the alleged murder of two men by a police officer.Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi will argue Pauline Hanson tried to make her a ‘lesser person’ by telling her to ‘piss off back to Pakistan’.
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