“I’m able to inform the court in principle that the matter has resolved,” Crenshaw’s attorney Kelvin Andrews told the court after an adjournment of the trial which lasted several hours, according to The Australian.

In 2018, then-18-year-old Crenshaw was sexually assaulted by Jason Mays, who was then serving as a Hillsong staff administrator and volunteer singer.

“Jason grabbed me, putting his hand between my legs and his head on my stomach and began kissing my stomach. I felt his arms and hands wrapped around my legs making contact with my inner thigh, butt and crotch,” she wrote in a 2018 statement reviewed by The Christian Post.

Although she reported the matter to Margaret Aghajanian, Hillsong Church’s then head of pastoral care oversight, that Mays — the son of Hillsong’s then head of human resources, John Mays — had assaulted her, her complaint was diminished.

“I felt like I could not say anything about the Jason incident because his friend had said not to, insisting that he was a good guy, and this was not a normal behavior for him. After the incident until now I feel uncomfortable when I come into the same area as him,” Crenshaw said in her statement to Aghajanian.

In 2020, Mays pleaded guilty to indecent assault and was placed on two years’ probation and mandatory counseling.

“The claim against the church relates to how it responded to the report, including managing the plaintiff’s welfare,” Gillian Mahoney, a lawyer for Hillsong Church, told 9 News.

Macinnis said what Mays did to Crenshaw was a “single, fleeting, spontaneous” moment and that Crenshaw’s initial account of the assault was presented as somewhat “less serious” than it how it’s being presented at the present time.

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