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Originally Posted by TresselstillownsTSUN

Just because his wife thinks he's gay doesn't make him a serial molester of children. People jumped the gun on this one IMO.

http://http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7286347/otl-audio-tape-syracuse-orange-assistant-bernie-fine-wife-admits-worries-abuse

In a tape-recorded 2002 telephone conversation, the wife of Syracuse associate head coach Bernie Fine admitted she had concerns that her husband had sexually molested a team ball boy in their home, but said she felt powerless to stop the alleged abuse.

Bobby Davis, who has publicly accused Bernie Fine of years of molestation that Davis said started when he was in the seventh grade, legally recorded his Oct. 8, 2002, phone call to Laurie Fine.

Average age of students starting 7th grade: twelve.

http://http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/bernie-fine-wife-audio-syracuse-basketball-scandal-transcript-2864507.html

Laurie: Convince yourself. You did nothing wrong. You did nothing wrong, and you were a child, and he took advantage of that.

Bobby: You think I'm the only one he's ever done that to?
Laurie: No.
Bobby: That one time you told me you saw him, like when I was really young, you saw him through the basement window when you were taking the garbage out?
Laurie: Right. I don't know. Is this bothersome to you?

Bobby: You know how he'd always try to get me in the shower. You knew about that, right?
Laurie: Yeah. I still have a graphic memory of that, thank you.
Bobby: Whenever you weren't there ...(unintelligible)
Laurie: He'd always say, 'Bobby and I are going in the Jacuzzi.' And I'd go to the bathroom and I'd try to come in. The door'd be locked. I'd check: 'What's going on?' 'Nothing.' I said, 'Unlock the door.' 'No, we're in our underwear.'

Bobby: Exactly. When I stayed there in your basement, he'd come down there every night. I'm like, what the heck, what's Laurie thinking?
Laurie: What did I think? ... And then he'd come down to where you were every night. And he'd say to me, 'Go check (their son). 'Or... Go lay with him. Go upstairs.' Anything to get me out of the room. And I knew. I told you when I was walking down the stairs at night, I'd say to myself, Guaranteed he's not in there. When I'd look in, his papers would be spread out all over and he'd be gone. Right down the basement, door closed.
Bobby: He did that every night.

I don't think Bernie being "gay" is the issue here. That was not the "preference" I was referring to.