Bernie Fine Accusations: Fourth Accuser Made It All Up

I think he means no one should be punished “due to” false accusations. Not that people making false accusations should not be punished.

He sends the Colin Cowherd show an email or text message saying he too was molested by Fine. Cowherd’s producer gives Tomaselli’s info to Mark Schwarz. Schwarz talks to Tomaselli and then puts Tomaselli in touch with Davis. The 2 “victims”, who have never met, have a phone conversation. AFTER this conversation, Tomaselli tells police and investigators his tale, replete with detailed descriptions of the inside of Fine’s residence (which Davis has spent a lot of time at), where he claims he spent the night once. His story includes details that were easily fact-checked (says his father let him miss school (his self-proclaimed very strict, very religious father) to travel alone to Pittsburgh to attend the game. School records from Tomaselli’s school show him in attendance on the day in question. Tomaselli laughs that off, claiming that since his father bullied his way onto the school board he (Tomaselli) is not surprised that the records show that, claiming that his father somehow manipulated the attendance records. This is the father who adamantly denies that any of this ever took place by the way. So to believe Tomaselli, you have to accept that Tomaselli’s father was not only negligent in allowing a young boy to make an interstate road trip with a bunch of folks he’d met once after a brief handshake, but that the father was actually complicit in covering up the molestation by altering school attendance records. If you accept that, you then move on to discover that the bus Tomaselli claims to ridden to Pittsburgh (first with SU support staff, then maybe alumni or boosters) apparently never existed, or if it did, any records of such a bus have also been hidden or destroyed, as no evidence exists that such a bus ever made a trip to Pittsburgh. These are just the facts. From here speculation as to Tomaselli’s motives can go where they will, but he is not a tiny bit credible. My only study of the law comes from watching tv, and even I could cross examine Tomaselli and shatter his claims.

I don’t know what happened with Bernie Fine, Laurie Fine and Bobby Davis, but I do not believe he was molested. I wish the SOL had not expired, because I would love to see Bernie get his day in court to either clear his name or answer for what he (allegedly) has done. Unfortunately, that seems incredibly unlikely to happen.