Bernie Fine FIRED-Wife watched him molest boy
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The evidence continues to mount against the latest university molester, Bernie Fine, as his own wife inadvertently gives evidence by way of phone conversations with three other victims.
Damning new evidence suggests the wife of Syracuse University associate head basketball coach Bernie Fine watched her husband molest a boy who was staying at their house, according to Mail Online.
Laurie Fine told one of her husband’s three accusers in a recorded phone call that she suspected he had done the same to other boys — but that she never did anything to stop it.
Bobby Davis, now 39, says he secretly taped the conversation in 2002 in an effort to collect proof that the longtime college basketball coach had abused him, starting when he was in seventh grade – 12 years old.
‘I know everything that went on, you know,’ she says on tapes played by ESPN’s Outside the Line program.
‘I know everything that went on with him. Bernie has issues, maybe that he’s not aware of, but he has issues. And you trusted somebody you shouldn’t have trusted.’
Mr Fine has denied the allegations as ‘patently false.’ However, the university has put the coach on leave. Authorities have said if any crimes were committed, they are likely beyond the statute of limitation and cannot be prosecuted.
The phone conversation was verified by a voice-recognition analyst hired by ESPN.
Mrs Fine talks about the alleged abuse against Mr Davis in a matter-of-fact tone and suggests she has known about it for many years.
Mrs Fine: ‘Oh, of course he would! Why wouldn’t he?’
Mr Davis lived with the Fines in the basement of their house on and off throughout his childhood. He says Mr Fine began abusing him when he was just 12 years old and in seventh grade.
He says Mrs Fine always knew something was going and even caught her husband touching the boy when she peered through the blinds one night as she pretended to take out the trash.
It wasn’t until that incident, when Mr Davis was in high school but still a minor, that Mrs Fine approached him and told him to stand up for himself. However, she never called police.
In the conversation, Mrs Fine seems to accept that her husband has predilections for boys and that there is nothing she can do about it.
‘You know what, “Go to a place where there’s gay boys. Find yourself a gay boy,”‘ Mrs Fine says.
‘”Get your rocks off, and have it be over with.” He needs that male companionship that I can’t give him.’
She explains that her husband is no longer interested in her sexually, instead preferring boys. And she isn’t interested in him, either, she says.
Which could explain why she ALSO became sexually involved with Mr Davis. In the tape she confirms that she had sex with the former Syracuse University ball boy when he was 18 and a high school senior.
But she claims she couldn’t help Mr Davis when he was younger.
‘Because I care about you, and I didn’t want to see you being treated that way,’ she says.
‘And, it’s hard. If it was another girl… it would be easy to step in because you know what you’re up against. If it’s another guy, you can’t compete with that. It’s just wrong, and you were a kid. You’re a man now, but you were a kid then.’
If the allegations Mr Davis are making prove true, Mrs Fine did nothing to stop the abuse while it occurred.
But she wasn’t the only one who didn’t step in to help Mr Davis. He reported the incident to Syracuse police in 2002 and turned over the tapes when the detective said he needed proof.
But police apparently never investigated any farther.
In 2003, Mr Davis turned the tapes over to ESPN, but the sports network never did anything then because reporters couldn’t find ‘anyone else to corroborate the story.’
Minutes after this story was ready for publication MMA learned that Bernie Fine was FIRED from Syracuse.
These stories are shocking in their extreme. What are your thoughts about Bernie Fine?
The Duke
November 27, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Holy shit man! Never trust the bitches is what I always say.
Michael John Scott
November 28, 2011 at 10:08 am
Well that’s one way to put I suppose Duke but I doubt you’ll be getting many female fans. As to Bernie Fine I think he’s toast, not just at the university but I suspect the CJ system will be looking very hard at him.