[Jane Velez-mitchell, Host:] Tonight, power and privilege center stage in the Syracuse University pedophile scandal. Did the former Syracuse police chief know ten years ago about the accusations that assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine sexually molested young boys? Was there a cover-up? Now the university`s under pressure to fire head coach Jim Boeheim. We`ll go live to the first home game since the scandal broke. Plus, a missing mom`s family pleased with her ex-fiance, who`s just been named a prime suspect in the disappearance of Michelle Parker, the mother of his two children. Tonight, I`ll talk to Michelle`s sister. Is she surprised? This as the missing woman`s mom tells the ex-fiance, you brought this on yourself by refusing to take a polygraph. What`s he trying to hide? Where is Michelle Parker? \ And, you might say this is it for Dr. Conrad Murray.
[Judge Michael Pastor, Los Angeles Superior Court:] The court has determined that the appropriate term is the high term of four years imprisonment.
[Velez-mitchell:] That`s right. Michael Jackson`s doc gets four years in the slammer, but how much time will he really serve? And I`ll talk exclusively with juror No. 5. You won`t believe what she has to say about what went on behind closed doors. And we`re taking your calls. ISSUES starts now. But first, breaking news tonight. Shocking new developments in the Syracuse child sex abuse scandal. We have just learned in 2002, then-Syracuse police chief, the top cop, was told that Bobby Davis accused Assistant Coach Bernie Fine of sexual assault, but since the statute of limitations had run out, no police investigation was started, and no official report was ever written up. This is almost a decade ago. The very stuff that we`re all talking about now the Syracuse police chief at the time knew about, and did nothing. It`s like the accusation never happened. Just as shocking, Syracuse University did its own investigation in 2005, into the very same child sex allegation, and they reportedly never told the cops. Who investigates child sexual assault and simply forgets to tell cops what they have learned? Pat Brown, criminal profiler, the situation has become clear here. The powers that be, the authorities, the ones who are supposed to keep us safe dropped the ball, a decade ago. And now it`s up to the news media to break these stories and bring these allegations before the world. And this is an upside-down world that we live in, when it seems that when cops hear these accusations, they do absolutely nothing.
[Pat Brown, Criminal Profiler:] Well, I think, Jane, one of the problems is, they have to have proof. And therein lies the "he saidhe said" kind of thing. And I don`t know, because we haven`t seen yet what the proof was, so you can believe something may have occurred. You may think the kid`s telling you the truth, but the problem is, you have to have that proof before you go out...
[Velez-mitchell:] Well, let me say this. Let me say this. I`m going to respectfully disagree with you.
[Brown:] OK.
[Velez-mitchell:] When somebody comes in and says, oh, you know, God forbid, I was right, or whatever, you don`t have to have proof to file a police report! I mean, they did not even file a police report. You do proof? There`s a trial that determines whether or not the accuser is telling the truth.
[Brown:] Well, Jane, wait a minute. You know darn well that prosecutors will never take something to court if they don`t have enough evidence. They don`t want to go to court and make idiots of themselves and have nothing to prosecute. So there has to be some level of evidence to do that. I mean, anybody can file a police report. That`s true. But it may not go any further than that if they do not have something conclusive. I mean, I wish it was different, but I don`t know that it you know, we can do anything about that, except maybe set up better social service systems and other things to support what`s going on.
[Velez-mitchell:] Former prosecutor Tom Kenniff, you are shaking your head.
[Tom Kenniff, Former Prosecutor:] Jane, I have to disagree. In fact, it`s characteristic of sex cases, particularly sex cases involving children, that there are no witnesses. You know, what the police do in this situation is, first of all, they vet the victim. Often the victim meets with psychologists, victim advocates, social workers. They may have them describe the intimate details: where it took place, how it took place, the physical description of the defendant. And the case is prosecuted based on that. But what prosecutors will tell you is what child would lie about something like this? So, you know, extrinsic evidence, witnesses, it`s very rare in a case like this.
[Velez-mitchell:] Mike Galanos, you are there at Syracuse University. Tell us about the start of the first home game and the reaction to this news that the police chief not the current, but the then-police chief knew about this a decade ago and did nothing.
[Mike Galanos, Hln Correspondent:] Jane, I`m not sure you can hear me. I heard the beginning question...
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes. Go, Mike.
[Galanos:] Jane, let me let me say this. Again, can`t hear you. We`ll try and establish contact. Let me tell you what I`m seeing here on the campus of Syracuse. They want answers. There`s shock and disbelief as to what`s going on. Sadness. Fans basically saying it`s like a kick in the gut, what`s going on. I think they`re looking at a basketball game tonight as potentially somewhat of a respite. Jim Boeheim, the coach, gets a vote of confidence. The chancellor of the university, Nancy Cantor, saying, "Jim Boeheim`s our coach. He`s getting ready for a game. We`re very pleased with what he had to say Sunday night, and we stand by him." Still one of the questions: what all did Jim Boeheim know? He says at this point in 2005, he knew that the university conducted an investigation. Nothing was found wrong concerning his longtime friend and assistant coach, Bernie Fine. So that`s where it stands now. Game going on behind us. It will be an interesting atmosphere. Probably even more interesting, the post-game press conference as Coach Jim Boeheim has to deal with some questions.
[Velez-mitchell:] Yes. Well, if he knew in 2005, this coach, that there was an investigation, given that we`re talking about ball boys here, I think it was incumbent upon him to do something more. And it actually makes it more shocking, Tom, that when he heard about these accusations, he says they are lies, and he says that it`s money grubbing, and then he`s forced to backpedal when this shocking phone call comes out that we`re going to play right now. The world was shocked to hear what ESPN says is a telephone call between alleged victim No. 1, Bobby Davis, and Bernie Fine`s own wife, Laurie. The conversation they have is jaw-dropping. Listen to this clip.
[Laurie Fine, Bernie Fine`s Wife:] He wants you to grab him? Or
[Bobby Davis, Alleged Victim:] No, he`s he`s trying to make me no he`d try to make he grab him, I mean, he`s like, but at first he would grab me and start, you know, touching me...
[Fine:] But you never had any oral sex with him?
[Davis:] No.
[Fine:] No.
[Davis:] But he`s I think he would want to, but... Fine: Oh, of course he would! Why wouldn`t he?
[Velez-mitchell:] All right. After that, Tom Kenniff, the coach says, "Well, I hope I didn`t offend anybody," and he backtracks. But his initial gut reaction was to call the accusers liars and say they were out for money.
[Kenniff:] Jane, let me make two points. One, I`m not I`m not a fan of throwing the head coach under a bus. I wasn`t a fan of that in the Penn State case with Joe Paterno, and I don`t necessarily agree with it in this case, because he`s a basketball coach. He`s not a school administrator. However, I do disagree. He has absolutely no business running defense for his assistant coach, Bernie Fine. He has no business making comments on a case that is really at this point is subject to the authorities to deal with, the administrators of Syracuse University. So he can`t have it both ways. He can`t absolve himself of responsibility but also act as a de facto advocate for his assistant coach.
[Velez-mitchell:] And by the way, we have to point out that Bobby Davis, his accuser this is very complicated. He also had a sexual relationship with Laurie Fine when he was a senior in high school, and in fact, CNN`s Gary Tuchman went to Laurie Fine, Bernie Fine`s wife`s home to try to get a comment from her. Here`s how far he got.
[Gary Tuchman, Cnn Correspondent:] Ms. Fine, I`m Gary Tuchman with CNN. I`m sorry to bother you.
[Fine:] You`re not bothering me.
[Tuchman:] But I was hoping I could...
[Fine:] I have no comment.
[Tuchman:] Your nephew was saying that...
[Fine:] We have no statement.
[Tuchman:] You`re not going to make a statement?
[Fine:] No comment.
[Tuchman:] Is that tape misinterpreted?
[Fine:] I can`t comment.
[Tuchman:] How come you can`t comment?
[Velez-mitchell:] OK. In this ESPN clip, Laurie Fine, the wife of the coach who`s been accused of child sexual assault, apparently says she knew everything that went on. Listen to this.
[Fine:] I know everything that went on. You know, I know everything that went on with him. Bernie has issues. Maybe that he`s not aware of, but he has issues. And you trusted somebody you shouldn`t have trusted.
[Davis:] Yes.
[Fine:] Bernie is also in denial. I think that he did the things he did, but somehow through his own mental telepathy has erased it out of his mind.
[Velez-mitchell:] So Pat Brown, you`re saying, "Whoa, they have to have proof." Now we hear, oh, the wife of the person who`s being accused acts like she`s known everything and uses make references to oral sex "Oh, did you have oral sex with him," and questions like that. But you know, how do we find that out if we don`t investigate? How do we know where it leads? Even if the statute of limitations had passed, maybe something else was happening to someone else. And indeed, there is a third accuser who`s come forward who says at the very time that Bobby Davis was trying to get cops to take his story seriously about what happened back in the `80s and the `90s, allegedly, vis-a-vis Bernie Fine, another another young man claims he was being sexually abused at the same time. So that`s why I think it`s important, Pat.
[Brown:] Well, I agree. I`m not saying that an investigation shouldn`t be done. I`m just saying they`re very, very difficult. And what I would like to see happen, which has never been happening, is that when we have a person who is found to be sexually assaulting children I call them serial rapists it doesn`t matter if it`s just one child. If you do it more than once, you`re a serial rapist. You just have an easy victim. You should be in prison for life and your child shouldn`t have to come and visit you. I`ve seen I`ve actually seen children have to go visit their father who`s raped them in jail so they can keep up their relationship with the rapist. And if there is a wife who was knowledgeable of what was going on, when she has aided and abetted a serial rapist, she needs to be in prison, as well. We don`t have enough laws, because we keep calling it molestation, and he just touched the kid. Let`s give him six months of some therapy. He`s a rapist, a serial rapist, if that`s what he did.
[Velez-mitchell:] Well, we are all over this story. We might have some developments for you a little bit later on. Hang in there. Up next, the Orlando mother who vanished after appearing on "People`s Court" with her ex-fiance. Cops say they have a suspect now, and you won`t believe who it is. We`re taking your calls: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1-877-586- 7297.
[Unidentified Female:] I think from the get-go, a lot of us, I know myself have said, that all possibilities have been opened. There`s not been one thing at one time that wasn`t being looked at. So from the get- go, there was everything that was being looked at. So I don`t think there was a single time as a family that we ever let that slip our mind.