Judgment Day just is not letting up for this scandalized ex-preacher.
Previous Hillsong Church pastor Carl Lentz’s popularity took nevertheless a different blow this week when the megachurch’s inner investigation into his alleged wrongdoings was leaked to the push.
The Australia-based mostly religious establishment experienced previously only introduced cherry-picked bits of the assessment into its East Coast branches less than Lentz’s leadership. The audit was performed by an unaffiliated lawful company and launched shortly soon after Lentz was fired for adultery in November 2020. In an e-mail to congregants in February 2021, now-disgraced church founder Brian Houston introduced the investigation was complete and experienced unearthed “significant ways” the NYC operations experienced “failed to mirror Hillsong international culture” but offered minor even more information, The Article claimed at the time.
All those particulars have now at last come to light-weight: A version of the 51-webpage report was leaked to the Christian Put up, which on Monday posted lots of of its most surprising allegations, which include that doing work with Lentz “caused” lots of churchgoers “to go through from mental illness,” that his spouse Laura reportedly as soon as punched a former nanny and present Hillsong pastor in the experience “with a closed fist” and that, in addition to his alleged affair with fashion designer Ranin Karim, he reportedly experienced at the very least one more with a woman he met at a Brooklyn deli and saved in his telephone contacts as “Germany.”
The investigation was performed by the NYC legislation agency Zukerman Gore Brandeis & Crossman, LLP. In accordance to the Christian Publish, its report observed: “Due to the restricted quantity of documentary proof, the comprehensive assertion of failure of memory by certain witnesses, and the requirement to rely on oral testimony and demeanor, the conclusions in this report, although they might be phrased in a ‘factual’ model for readability, should be recognized as the contentions of a witness, or statements of impression by the investigating attorneys.”
“It was not uncommon for volunteers and team who had regular interaction with Carl Lentz to report that such interaction had ‘caused’ them to experience from psychological ailment,” investigators wrote in the report.
In examining Lentz’s text messages, investigators also uncovered that the 43-yr-previous father of a few had been sent selling price rates for massages and other sexual acts by many masseuses.
“Laura Lentz mentioned that she experienced ‘hunches’ and ‘vibes’ that the massages ended up ‘a bit strange’ and that in 2019 the routine of Lentz receiving massages turned extra of a night time event,” stated the report, which observed that, when remaining interviewed by investigators, Lentz both attacked his accusers and bragged about getting “a extremely excellent liar” who purposefully hid his various imprudences.
“Such initiatives included boldly lying to his wife, Laura, when she caught him and Leona [Kimes] in flagrante delecto on a couch” in the dwelling of former NBA participant Tyson Chandler, the report comprehensive. Kimes, who nannied for the Lentzes for 7 yrs, has formerly composed about the nightmarish practical experience, in which she alleged she was “subjected to manipulation, command, bullying, abuse of electricity and sexual abuse.”
The very same working day as the Christian Write-up released its piece on the report, Laura posted a screed versus naysayers on Instagram.
“My family has remained silent all over this ordeal mainly because our precedence has been the healing of our loved ones. This does not necessarily mean we do not have a good deal to say!” she wrote. “When the time is ideal, we have a whole lot to say about what has transpired as effectively as speaking specifically to the RELENTLESS lies, accusations and hypocritical scapegoating that has regrettably been so common. Right up until then, we are so grateful for the regular guidance of so a lot of. Your kindness has intended the world to us. We are wanting forward to a brighter working day!”
Neither Hillsong nor Laura or Carl Lentz returned The Post’s request for remark.
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