Bernie Fine fired by Syracuse amid molestation allegations – ESPN.
This one is Syracuse University assistant basketball Bernie Fine, who has been accused by three different men of sexual abuse. One accusation features taped calls with the coach’s wife as corroborating evidence, which were apparently offered to police and ESPN years ago.
The statute of limitations has run out on most of the cases, except for that of the third accuser in Maine, who faces child molestation charges of his own. This has become a federal case now, and may be the primary impetus for moving the university to fire Fine.
According to the Daily Mail, the first accuser, Bobby Davis turned over his tapes to the Syracuse police in 2002 and to ESPN in 2003. ESPN said that they did not do anything with the tapes because there were no other corroborating accusers. The second accuser is Mike Lang, step-brother of Davis. 24 year old Zach Tomaselli, who has touched off the federal investigation, is the third accuser.
