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November 18, 2011
Syracuse puts Fine on leave after police inquiry: Just two weeks after Penn State was rocked by a child sex-abuse scandal, Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor says the school will not turn a blind eye to child molesting allegations against longtime assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine.
posted by BornIcon to basketball at 09:02 AM - 5 comments
One of Fine's alleged victims, a former Syracuse ball boy, claims that coach Jim Boeheim knew he was sharing a hotel room with Fine on road trips and saw him "all the time in the hotel rooms."
Boeheim told a reporter this week, "I have never walked into Bernie's room on the road." Fine's been a Syracuse assistant for 35 years and Boeheim has never been in his hotel room during a road trip?
posted by rcade at 10:16 AM on November 18, 2011
Culpable deniability, it's not just for Presidents.
posted by apoch at 10:28 AM on November 18, 2011
Wonder if they'll rename the floor the Derrick Coleman Court.
posted by beaverboard at 10:57 AM on November 18, 2011
That's funny how the University says they won't ignore such charges, but they have since at least 2005. Why are University's doing their own investigations of these things?
But, this from the article :
" ... the school conducted its own four-month investigation at that time, including interviews with people the accuser said would support his allegations, but that all of them 'denied any knowledge of wrongful conduct' ..."
"We were informed by the complainant that the Syracuse City Police had declined to pursue the matter because the statute of limitations had expired,'' Quinn said.
Why would anyone corroborate any allegations now?
True ... if they weren't willing to corraborate when this was initially investigated in 2005, it a shame they won't do so now. That MUST be the fault of the media and society coming down hard on the folks involved in the 2011 Penn St debacle.
I'm not judging whether the Syracuse accusations are founded (if so, it's certainly another unbelievably sad situation, and I'm otherwise neutral toward Syracuse). And, if the Sandusky tragedy encourages other legitimate victims with the strength to step forward regarding other crimes, at least something somewhat positive comes from it. But, by the time the Penn St story broke and the outcry became so strong, that had already started playing out in significant legal processes. The same should be allowed here.
posted by littleLebowski at 02:58 PM on November 18, 2011
That's funny how the University says they won't ignore such charges, but they have since at least 2005. Why are University's doing their own investigations of these things?
The reaction of the people who know Fine is telling. Of course, no one believes that he would be capable of such a thing.
Why would anyone corroborate any allegations now? If you knew anything and didn't go directly to the police yourself, then you are going down.