"To be honest, this whole 'fishing' scheme of yours to see if I will bite isn't what even pisses me off. "First off, I'm insulted that you wouldn't understand what you're doing but I'm not f**king stupid," she wrote. "Darnell, I'm not going to lie, I blocked your for a second but I've decided I need to say something to you," she wrote in messages obtained by DailyMail. She said she barely knew Barrett when she volunteered for Hillsong from 2014 to 2016, but claimed the pastor had reached out to her earlier this year saying he was heading to the state where she had moved.
I don't want to get into the details," he told a reporter outside the West Orange, New Jersey, home he shares with his wife, adding that he and his wife are "working through" his apparent "infidelity."Īlthough the pastor still claims to have sent those photos mistakenly, the woman Darnell Barrett, who hasn't been named, told the outlet that it was no accident. "We thought it was best for me to move on. When the Daily Mail approached the pastor for comment, he admitted to sending the explicit selfie and confirmed that he had already resigned from his role. On Tuesday, he resigned after things came to light. The case remains before the courts, with hearings to resume in June.Barrett apologized but by that time he had already shown his true nature and intent. Houston is also fighting accusations he concealed his late father's child sexual abuse and has pleaded not guilty to a charge of concealing the crime until his father's death in 2004. Wilkie used parliamentary privilege to accuse Houston of "treating private jets like Ubers,"claiming he spent $179,000 in church money over a three month period on air travel. Since then the church has faced allegations of financial misconduct from the Australian independent MP Andrew Wilkie. Houston stepped down as Hillsong leader last year. Houston was charged in Orange County, California, in February last year, after recording a blood alcohol reading of 0.08, according to court records. Meanwhile, Hillsong's founder and former senior pastor, Brian Houston has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in the US. "That is a pattern of protecting the predator and the leaders and not the people of the church." Hillsong would rather protect them than the people who are actually coming to the church and showing their loyalty," Cameron said.
"The men in leadership, or people in leadership, are being protected and they're not really doing the right thing. They refuse to take the youth leader off of the team and the family left the church. And I feel sad that I felt like I had to play along with this."Ĭameron told her mother about the messages who took them directly to Hillsong founder Brian Houston. The claims eventually resulted in a meeting between Hillsong pastors and the Cameron family where the church was said to have blamed the girl for inviting the attention. It feels just uncomfortable to know that this is how an adult was talking to me when I was 13. "He was asking me at 13-years-old to send him nude pictures of myself. "I think that he wanted to have some sexual relationship with me by the way that he would text me and ask to see pictures of me," Cameron told the Channel 7 team in the episode which aired on Sunday night. Cameron reveals that an adult group leader of the church asked her for nude photos when she was just 13. A former Hillsong Church member Piper Cameron speaks out about the mega-church in Australia's Channel 7's Spotlight program that aired on Sunday evening.
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