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wo former Syracuse ball boys filed a suit saying the wife of the team's former assistant coach Bernie Fine regularly had sex with players.
One of the accusers, Bobby Davis, says that Laurie Fine regularly slept with high school recruits- like himself- and was often heard talking with other coaches about performing oral sex on the boys, as well as evaluating their 'specific size and physical attributes'.
The suit is also seeking damages saying that the team's head coach Jim Boeheim defamed Fine's accusers when he called their allegations of sexual abuse lies.
Accused: Laurie Fine allegedly had sex with some of her husband's players and regularly evaluated their 'specific size and physical attributes' with other coaches
Fired: Bernie Fine was fired in November after recordings were released that said he molested a number of his former players
Bernie Fine, 66, was fired in November after ESPN released a taped conversation it had obtained between Mr Davis and Laurie Fine in which Laurie said that she knew that her husband molested his players but she did not do anything about it.
The two accusers in this suit- Davis and his stepbrother Michael Long- say they were forcibly touched multiple by Bernie Fine in the 1980s.
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Syracuse administrators immediately fired Fine, and Mr Boeheim publicly defended his former assistant, saying that his accusers were liars and simply bringing the topic up to make money.
'I believe Boeheim deliberately chose to ignore what he knew was improper behavior, or actually knew precisely what was happening and did nothing to intervene,' Mr Davis writes in the affidavit.
Accuser: Bobby Davis recorded his conversation with Laurie Fine when she said that she knew Bernie molested boys but she didn't do anything
'It is not only Fine’s relationship with me and other boys that would have tipped Boeheim off. For years, Bernie Fine’s wife Laurie Fine had sexual relationships with basketball team players. Players used to talk openly about it as a known fact,' the affidavit continues.
Another controversy surrounding the suit is the location of the inevitable trial.
Gloria Allred, the lawyer for the accusers- Mr Davis and his stepbrother Michael Lang- filed the defamation suit in New York State Supreme Court which is in Manhattan.
Mr Boeheim wants the trial to take place in Onondaga County upstate, which is where he lives.
The accusers fear that there is too much support for the Syracuse coaches there and if the trial were to take place in the school's backyard, they feel they would not be given equal treatment.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...l#ixzz1l3fH93oD.
