Syracuse Basketball Coach Fired Regarding Alleged Sexual Abuse To Boys
Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine’s wife appear to strengthen the allegations of child sex abuse adjacent to her husband added another distress wave to the case Sunday, most important to the firing of Fine on Sunday night and eliciting comparison to the cover up of child sex abuse allegation at Penn State.
Thirty-six years after he was hired as an helper basketball coach at Syracuse University, Bernie Fine is out of a job amid an exploration into child molestation allegations against him.
"At the bearing of Chancellor Cantor, Bernie Fine's service with Syracuse University has been concluded, effective immediately," Kevin Quinn, the school's senior vice president for public affairs, said in a declaration, referring to Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor.
Fine was positioned on administrative leave earlier this month, after previous Syracuse ball boy Bobby Davis and his stepbrother, Mike Lang, accused him of molest them. The university in announce Fine's leave in advance this month noted it had conducted its own investigation in 2005 and was "unable to find any validation of the allegations."
The news of Fine’s dismissal came the same day that the Syracuse-based Post-Standard newspaper and ESPN both reported the existence of a soundtrack of a 2002 phone discussion that they said Davis had recorded between him and the coach’s wife. enough corroborating evidence or a second accuser.”
No one answered the door at the Fine home Sunday. Before Fine's firing, his attorneys released a statement saying Fine would not comment beyond his preliminary statement.
Among the child sex-abuse scandal, Penn State's trustees ousted longtime football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier. The trustees said Spanier and Paterno, who is not the objective of any criminal analysis, failed to act after a graduate assistant claim he saw Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in a campus have a shower in 2002. Former school administrator Tim Curley – who is on administrative leave – and Gary Schultz are charged with not correctly alert authorities to suspected abuse and with perjury. They uphold their innocence.
"Any observation from him would only invite and be alive responsible for antique and suspect claims," attorneys Donald Martin and Karl Sleight said. "Mr. Fine remains buoyant of a credible and swift review of the significant issues by law enforcement establishment."
Tomaselli said the scandal at Penn State connecting former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky prompted him to come onward. Sandusky is accuse in a grand jury condemnation of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period.
The wife, Laurie Fine, at the time recommended to the Post-Standard that Davis had taped her on multiple occasions and shortened the recordings to make them appear more inflammatory.
In the tape, a woman -- which ESPN, citing expert, claims was Laurie Fine -- said she knew "the whole thing that went on" with her husband, adding that "he thinks he's above the law."
"Bernie has issues ... and you trusted a big cheese you shouldn't," the woman said, speaking to Davis.
During his long career with Syracuse, Fine tutor the likes of Derrick Coleman, LeRon Ellis and John Wallace in his role of functioning with post players. Coleman was the top pick in the 1990 NBA draft, Ellis was the Clippers' 22nd overall choice in 1991, and Wallace was picked 18th in 1996 by the New York Knicks.
Boeheim and Fine met at Syracuse University in 1963, when Fine was student manager of the basketball team. Fine graduate in 1967 with a degree in personal and industrial family members and went into business for himself.
In 1970, Fine was named basketball and football coach at Lincoln Junior High in Syracuse and went to Henninger High School the next year as the junior varsity basketball coach. He became varsity basketball coach in 1975. When Boeheim was chosen to do well Roy Danforth at Syracuse in 1976 Boeheim offered Fine a job as an assistant.
Fine was an essential part of the staff that guided Syracuse to the national championship in 2003. During his tenure the Orange also made two other appearance in the NCAA title game, losing in 1987 to Indiana and in 1996 to Kentucky. He also guided the U.S. Maccabiah team to a silver medal at the 1993 World Maccabiah Games in Israel and has served as director of a victorious basketball camp in the Northeast.
The Post-Standard also report that Zach Tomaselli was invited by Fine to a party at his residence after the Syracuse-Pitt game on Feb. 1, 2003 – a game where Zach Tomaselli said Fine prearranged seats for him and his father several rows following the bench.
Tomaselli told the newspaper his father, who was unable to attend the party, allowed him to go to Fine's house and stay the night.
While there, Tomaselli told the AP, Fine asked him to get into bed and that Fine's wife, Laurie, was there when it happened.
The father said that Zachary Tomaselli’s allegation is absolutely “100% false,” suggesting that his son needed help and calling him a “master manipulator.” The father and son are estranged.
Besides his wife, Laurie, he has a son and two daughters, the profile stated.
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