The Tip Of The Iceberg?
It’s a shame, but we all need to be watchful over people with authority and influence over children. I am not painting all coaches with the same brush, but it seems to me that if you want to have access to children coaching offers a fertile hunting ground.
Via Balloon Juice:
Syracuse University Assistant Coach Bernie Fine was fired yesterday over a tape recording of a call with Fine’s wife released by his accuser, who says that Fine molested him in the 80’s, when he was a teenager. The call has to be heard to be believed, but the gist of it is that Fine’s wife Laurie knew that Fine was molesting alleged victim Bobby Davis in her house, and had some suspicions about other kids, and did nothing. Davis also says that he had a sexual relationship with Mrs. Fine when he was 18.
Listen to the call. And as Mistermix says: “The whole thing is ugly, but unless that call is an amazing fake, Bernie Fine and his wife are two awful human beings.” I agree. Seems like molesting children was no biggie to Mr. and Mrs. Fine.
BTW, I’ve added a new tag line. Looks like we may need it.
Tags: Pedophile Coaches
It also looks like Syracuse, the local paper, ESPN and the local PD have some explaining to do as well. It looks like everyone with the possibility of taking some action here failed pretty spectacularly.
Predators will always go where the prey abounds, whether the prey is children or grown-ups.
What needs changed is persons’ covering up for their friends, the “boys-will-be-boys” syndrome.