Bernie Fine Scandal: Fine's Wife's Sexual Encounter with Victim Adds Wild Twist

It's no surprise that police searched Syracuse basketball assistant Bernie Fine's house, but a recorded phone call between Fine's wife, Laurie Fine, and one of Fine's alleged child sex abuse victims has produced a bizarre twist that is almost too wild to fathom.

ESPN.com's Outside the Lines broke the story and aired parts of the legally recorded phone call. During the call, a woman whose voice matches Fine's wife, according to a voice-recognition expert hired by ESPN, alludes to something inappropriate happening between her and the alleged victim, Bobby Davis.

In the video report by OTL featured above the ESPN.com story, Davis confirms that the two had sexual intercourse when he was 18, so while the alleged act would have been legal, the rest of the phone call points to just how inappropriate it was.

While we don't hear Fine's wife come right out and say it, the writing is on the wall in the interview. It's not clear what happened based on that phone call, but Davis saying the two had sex does not seem out of the question when you hear the audio of the call.

"The issue at hand is that he had no business doing what he did to you," Laurie Fine allegedly said in the call. "You know what? And neither did I, because I really helped screw you up a little more, too."

Earlier this month, Davis and stepbrother Mike Lang told ESPN they were each molested by Bernie Fine when they were Syracuse ball boys over 25 years ago.

So just how much did Fine's wife know about the alleged abuse?

"I know everything that went on, you know," she said, according to ESPN. "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."

The entire exchange is sickening. Those who were outraged by the indifference put on display in the Penn State scandal have to be equally outraged by this phone call.

The woman alleged to be Laurie Fine shed some light on why she didn't intervene, saying in the call, "If it was another girl like I told you, it would be easy to step in because you know what you're up against. ... (When) it's another guy, you can't compete with that. It's just wrong, and you were a kid. You're a man now, but you were a kid then."

It's tough to comprehend how she could possibly know about the abuse in her own home and not do anything about it, but her sleeping with the victim when it became legal to do so, if this is all true, makes this case even stranger.