Pastor John McMartin arrested and charged with indecent assault | ABC News | 26th January 2020
Channel: Hillsong ACCountability
Date: 2022-02-07

On 26 November 2020, police from the Liverpool Area Command of the NSW Police arrested former pastor John McMartin of Inspire Church (near Liverpool NSW), and charged him with indecent assault.

It was alleged that McMartin sexually assaulted a then 19-year old parishioner at his Pleasure Point home in January 2013. McMartin appeared before Liverpool Local Court on 16 December and again on 27th January 2021. The case has been rescheduled for October 2021. 
He has pleaded "Not Guilty".

In 2014, McMartin had given a deposition and testimony to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse in his role as the NSW State President of the Australian Christian Churches, in relation to the denomination's responses to the pedophilia of ministers.

The irony of McMartin being responsible for AOG/ACC Policy concerning sexual assault, and then being charged with sexual assault is not lost on us.

This video: ABC News story 27 Jan 2021