The lady is concurrently suing the church, a university she attended on the time and the male perpetrator of the assault for damages, with a week-long listening to commencing within the Supreme Courtroom in Sydney on Monday.
The person pleaded responsible to indecently assaulting the girl in 2016 and the matter was handled within the native court docket.
“The declare towards the church pertains to the way it responded to the report, together with managing the plaintiff’s welfare,” Hillsong lawyer Gillian Mahoney advised the court docket.
Angus Macinnis, the lawyer for the person who dedicated the assault, mentioned there may be some dispute over the precise nature of what occurred and the extent of the influence on the girl.
He described the assault as “single, fleeting, spontaneous”, which he mentioned would have q bearing on the extent of psychological harm incurred by the girl.
Macinnis additionally advised the court docket the girl’s preliminary account of the assault diverse from later variations and was considerably “much less severe”.
The lady’s lawyer, Kelvin Andrews, advised the court docket amongst witnesses in her case will probably be two folks showing through an audio-visual hyperlink from Pennsylvania in the US.
Help is offered from the Nationwide Sexual Assault, Home Household Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).