AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Janet Fife-Yeomans
From:The Daily Telegraph
April 25, 2013
ALL child sex abuse victim Don Mayo wants is justice – but his story is so confronting, the Victims Compensation Tribunal at first said it could never have happened.
Now a well-known radio announcer, Mr Mayo was repeatedly raped as a boy by four brothers and a lay teacher at Christian Brothers College, Burwood.
Like most victims of childhood abuse, it took him decades before he could talk about it and, by then, his life “had fallen apart”.
Now he is one of the thousands pinning their hopes on the royal commission into institutionalised child sex abuse to provide answers.
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