[Ted Rowlands, Cnn Anchor:] You are you in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Ted Rowlands, in tonight for Don Lemon. We begin with major developments in the case against Bernie Fine, a Syracuse associate head baseball coach accused of sexually abusing two former ball boys. Reports today of a third accuser coming forward and perhaps most shockingly, ESPN has released a secretly-recorded conversation in 2002 between Fine's wife Laurie and one of the coaches accusers Bobby Davis. On it, potentially damning evidence that suggests Fine's wife not only knew about the abuse but allowed it to go on. You're going to hear that conversation in just a moment. But first the new accuser, 23-year-old Zach Tomaselli, affiliate WCSH spoke to Tomaselli who claims that Fine molested him in Pittsburgh at a hotel when he was 13 the night before a Syracuse game against Pitt. Tomaselli described the alleged abuse in detail.
[Zack Tomaselli, Accuses Fine Of Sex Abuse:] I was in the hotel room and he was he would put his hand down my shorts whenever I was sitting there watching TV. And he would basically fondle me four to maybe even five times. And it would go in spurts between 10 and 15 minutes. And it would stop for a couple hours and then he would start that all over again.
[Rowlands:] Tomaselli has his own troubles. He's facing his own charges for allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Maine in 2009 and 2010. Tomaselli's own father calls him a liar and denies ever meeting Fine or letting his son take a trip with the coach. You'll hear from the father in just a few minutes. Also this hour: reaction from Fine's attorneys and Syracuse University to the latest claim. We'll also talk with Jon Wertheim, senior investigative reporter for "Sports Illustrated" and you'll also here from ESPN reporter Mark Schwarz. Schwarz is the reporter who broke the story about Bobby Davis secretly recording a conversation in 2002 with Bernie Fine's wife Laura
[Mark Schwarz, Espn:] Bobby Davis says he knew of one person who could validate that he was being sexually abused by Bernie Fine. That person was Fine's wife, Laurie Fine.
[Laurie Fine, Bernie Fine's Wife:] Hello.
[Bobby Davis, Alleges Sexual Abuse By Bernie Fine:] Mrs. Fine.
[Fine:] Yes.
[Davis:] How are you?
[Fine:] Hi Bobby hi, how are you?
[Schwarz:] Davis says that in October of 2002, he recorded a phone conversation with Laurie Fine without her knowledge. A legal act based on the location of both parties. During the call, Fine, seen here in hidden camera video from 2003, discussed the alleged sexual molestation of Davis by her husband, Syracuse associate head basketball coach Bernie Fine.
[Fine:] What did he want to you do you can be honest with me.
[Davis:] So what do you think? What he always does.
[Fine:] What, he wants to you grab him?
[Davis:] No, he's he's trying to made me grab him, I mean, he's personally he grabbed me in the, you know
[Fine:] But you never had any oral sex with him?
[Davis:] No.
[Fine:] No.
[Davis:] I think he would let but
[Fine:] Oh of course he was, he would be.
[Schwarz:] After bringing his allegations against Bernie Fine to a Syracuse police detective in 2002 and getting nowhere, Davis says he was determined to confirm his story. He says he hoped Laurie Fine would disclose on tape the details of her own knowledge of the abuse he says started when he was 12 and continued for more than a decade.
[Unidentified Male:] So what were you hoping to accomplish by recording it?
[Davis:] Laurie was a person that I talked to a lot about the situation as I got older and she was there a lot of the times, seen a lot of things that were going on when Bernie would come down o the basement in his house and when I was laying down there. And she had to see him every night do that. But Laurie was the only one else that knew about what was going on, you know. And saw things that were happening with her own eyes and that we talked about it.
[Fine:] I know everything that went on and I know everything that went on with him. Bernie has issues. Maybe that he's not aware of, but he has issues. And if you trusted somebody you shouldn't have trusted.
[Davis:] Yes.
[Fine:] Bernie is also in denial. I think that he did the things did he, but he's somehow through his own mental telepathy of voicing out of his mind
[Schwarz:] Davis, who periodically stayed here at the Fine's former home beginning in the seventh grade and at one point had his own room in their basement says Laurie Fine told him she was aware that her husband was sexually abusing him.
[Fine:] Yes. I think there's an arrangement on this but it was scared you there was something about you.
[Davis:] I wonder why all this can work that now. One time she told me about an instance where she saw him through the basement window and she left like the blinds open a little bit one night and she actually was standing there and she watched through the window.
[Schwarz:] What did she see?
[Davis:] Bernie grabbing me and touching me. And she said the next day, you know, we got this is when I get older I probably like a junior in high school. And you got to step up to him, you got to say something, you got to be a man.
[Schwarz:] During the phone call, Davis explained to Laurie Fine that when he was about 27 years old in the late '90s, he asked Bernie Fine for $5,000 to help pay off some student loans.
[Fine:] When he gave you the money, what did he want for it?
[Davis:] He wanted to do me. He was trying to make it physical. He grabbed my head and I'll away and then he put me in your bed and then put me down and I tried to go away and he
[Fine:] Right. Right. He thought he could get what he wanted.
[Davis:] It's not about the money.
[Fine:] It's about the
[Schwarz:] During the call Laurie Fine suggested to Davis what her husband should do with his need for male companionship.
[Fine:] You know what, go to a place where there's gay boy, find yourself a gay boy, you know. Get your rocks off. Have it be over with. You know, he needs that male companionship that I can't give him. He's not interested in me.
[Schwarz:] At one point Laurie Fine seems to say that her husband was not only adult in the Fine household who betrayed Davis' trust.
[Rowlands:] There's much more of that report and that secretly-taped conversation ahead. Bobby Davis claiming a twisted relationship with the wife of his alleged abuser. That's coming up, stay with us.