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	ABC Presenter Recounts School Sex Abuse ABC News September 25, 2009 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/25/2697003.htm?section=australia Former federal MP and ABC presenter Eoin Cameron has spoken publicly for the first time about the about the sexual abuse he suffered as a boy at a Catholic boarding school in the 1960s. The Perth breakfast presenter says he was 12-years-old when he was first abused at the Marist Brothers College in Mount Gambier in South Australia. Mr Cameron says he had only been at the college a few days when he was first abused by the headmaster. "From the day I arrived at Marist Brothers my life pretty much turned to s**t," he said. He says he never told his parents about the abuse until he published a book in 2003. "Every time it came to go back to school, after holidays or anything like that, I'd lock myself in the room," he said. "I'd scream and carry on and howl and say, 'take me out of this dirty, stinking, rotten place', but could never tell them why." Mr Cameron says it was only in recent years that he decided to take action against the man responsible. "I thought, this guy is still alive and he's got to know that somewhere along the line there's a reckoning," he said. Mr Cameron sought legal help and received a written apology and a compensation payment from the Catholic Church six weeks ago. He says he feels vindicated after receiving the apology. "I've got it on top of the fridge still and I often, before I come to work in the morning, look at it," he said. "And I feel good about it, that it was not my fault; it was something that a 12-year-old should never have to put up with and I'm feeling pretty good with myself."
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