In the past few months, we've written several stories about high-profile individuals who were charged with sex crimes. A few months ago, we wrote about Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the sex abuse charges against him that were dropped. Recently, people throughout Pittsburgh have been watching as details of the alleged sex abuse scandal unfold at Penn State. Then there was news of the alleged abuse at The Citadel.

Most recently, there were accusations against the associate head basketball coach at Syracuse University. One victim, Bobby, claims that he was molested by the associate basketball coach from the late 1970s to the 1990s.

In 2003, he reported the alleged abuse to the police. However, because the statute of limitations had expired, and because there were no other victims, the police did not investigate the matter further.

The police reported the incident to the university, and the university conducted its own internal investigation. The head basketball coach said Bobby's story is nothing but "a thousand lies." He also said that Bobby "supplied four names to the university that would corroborate his story. None of them did... there is only one side to this story. He is lying."

When the police would not investigate his story in 2003, Bobby also went to ESPN. Reporters from ESPN spent hours with him, but after all their interviewing was complete, they decided not to air the story. They said there were "not other victims who would talk, and no independent evidence to corroborate his story."

Now that another victim stepped forward -- Bobby's stepbrother -- the university, the police and ESPN are all revisiting their original investigations.

Source: ESPN, "Syracuse's Bernie Fine placed on leave," Mark Schwarz and Artz Berko, Nov. 18, 2011