A pastor’s daughter has reached a private settlement with Hillsong Church, just over three years after she publicly said she was sexually assaulted by a married Hillsong Church administrator while attending Hillsong University.
On Monday, after a five-day civil trial, a private settlement was reached in Pennsylvania between Hillsong and Anna Crenshaw, daughter of Victory Church senior pastor Ed Crenshaw.
“In principle, we can tell the court that the matter is resolved,” Crenshaw’s attorney, Kelvin Andrews, said after the several-hour trial concluded, according to media reports. Australian person.
In 2018, Crenshaw, then 18, was sexually assaulted by Jason Mays, a Hillsong staff manager and volunteer singer at the time.
“Jason grabbed me, put his hand between my legs, put his head on my stomach and started kissing my stomach. His arms and hands wrapped around my legs, his inner thighs, I felt someone touching my butt, my groin,” she wrote in a 2018 statement seen by The Christian Post.
She reported to Hillsong Church’s then director of pastoral care, Margaret Agajanian, that Mr. Mays (the son of Hillsong Church’s then director of human resources, John Mays) had assaulted her, but her The complaint was abated.
“I felt like I couldn’t say anything about Jason’s incident because his friends said not to, claiming he is a good person and this is not normal behavior for him.” Since then, to this day, I feel uncomfortable when I am in the same area as him,” Crenshaw said in a statement to Agajanian.
2020, Maze plead guilty He was sentenced to two years’ probation and mandatory counseling for indecent assault.
Gillian Mahoney, a lawyer for Hillsong Church, said: “The allegations against the church relate to the church’s response to the report, including its management of the plaintiff’s welfare.” told 9News.
Hillsong did not respond to a request for further comment, but May’s lawyer, Angus Macinnis, said there was controversy over what happened to Crenshaw and the extent of her injuries.
McInnis said that what May did to Crenshaw was a “single, fleeting, spontaneous” moment, and that the initial account of Crenshaw’s assault, as currently reported, is He said the incident was presented as slightly “less serious”.
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributor to his Crosswalk Headlines and host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sound doctrine and Biblical truth. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Alliance Theological Seminary.
