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http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/6100 494/radio-star-heartbreaking-revelation-of-child-s ex-abuse/
Radio star's heartbreaking revelation of child sex abuseSTAFF REPORTERS, The West Australian September 25, 2009, 9:22 am
(**As this happened in SA-I thought there may be some who havent heard it but to whom it si relevant.**)
Perth radio personality Eoin Cameron has today revealed extraordinary details of sexual abuse while a student at a Catholic school in South Australia.
Speaking on ABC radio this morning, Cameron was clearly upset as he told host Geoff Hutchinson of the abuse that started within days of him arriving as a 12-year-old boarder at the boarding school.
Listen to Cameron's interview here
âVirtually from the day I arrived...my life pretty much turned to shit,â Cameron said.
âI was 12...I donât know exactly how many days after I arrived (the headmaster) called me into his office one night, a Sunday night if I recall.
âI had my pyjamas and dressing gown on and this guy started fondling me through my pyjamas. I was so freaked. I just couldnât believe what was happening.
âI was 12 years old but I can remember vividly the smell of his breath. The way he breathed. It was just planted in my brain. It seared into my brain. He then removed my pyjama pants and I didnât know what he was doing behind me but it was hurting. When it finished I was crying so much that he stopped what he was doing but then I realised I had blood running down my legs and into my pyjama pants."
Cameron said he considered the ongoing acts to be rape. "He penetrated me or attempted to once, that was the first time,â he said.
âI tried to clean myself up but I couldnât clean my pyjama pants up, there was blood through them. I buried my pyjama pants in the sludge so nobody could see the blood on them.
âI would not have known how to describe my parents what was wrong. They used to come on free weekendsâ¦I didnât even tell ... |
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and theyâd take us out for the dayâ¦Iâd plead with mum and dad to take me home.
Cameron left school at 14 after his grades âturned to muckâ. âI couldnât concentrate, I was disruptive in classes, I was just a regular pain.â
He also claimed to know of at least one more student who was abused while at the school.
âThere was another kid I knew who was getting abusedâ¦but ridiculously we didnât talk about it. I thought he was getting equal treatment,â he said.
After leaving school, Cameron didnât tell anyone about the abuse until he met his future wife Wendy, before getting married at 20.
He later referred vaguely to the abuse in his book, which he wrote mainly for his siblings as a record of their early years in South Australia.
When his parents read the final product, they were âdevastatedâ to learn of the years of abuse.
âIt turns out apparently they were reading it out loud to each other, as my mum describes it dad actually fell off the seat laughing at various things going on, and they got to the chapter B/arstards in Black and unfortunately I hadnât pre-warned them, perhaps I should.
âThey suddenly twigged as to why I behaved so badly.â
Cameron said he had always âwronglyâ assumed his abuser had been much older and would have died recently.
He said he got an email while working at ABC Radio from the school asking if he was the same pupil from their school. Cameron replied, asking after his former headmaster, only to discover he was still alive.
âThat absolutely galvanised me, I thought this guy is still alive and heâs got to know that somewhere along the line thereâs a reckoning.â
He pursued first an apology but later also received compensation for the abuse, with the final details being completed only six weeks ago.
âI had to identify him in a photograph as part of the investigation and that threw me for a loop.
âI just looked at the four of them (in the picture) and kne ... |
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instantlyâ¦it was the one in the right hand corner. "It is so cathartic to have done it. Now that my parents know pretty much the full storyâ¦.even a couple of my brothers who went to the same college and nothing happened to them. Itâs almost like youâve been vindicated."
Saturday: Eoin Cameron speaks candidly to The West Australian
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a very brave man-to open himself up this way -in WA even ;there were replies from people who had finally decided to do something about thier hidden past abuse-just because they heard Eoin speak.
In the interview ;he names the Brother concerned and the Catholic Boarding schools he was principal at-if any are interested in listening to the interview on the ABC WA Morning program. |
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I believe his name was Brother Bernice and he was a Marist Bother ;who was at Wangaratta and a number of other schools-also well thought of, within the church heirachy.
Eoin approached Toward Healing and with the help of his son; when the going got too tough for him ; was finally vindicated -as this brother had also molested a number of other boys, at different schools,who came forward after reading Eoin's story;where he had not been as candid as he now was.
The title of the chapter-really gave it away.
There may be more out there ,who have not read Eoin's story-but have a similar story to tell about this man.(If we can call him that!) |
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