Fine: Allegations are 'patently false'

Mark Chaffin, pediatrics professor who is research director at the University of Oklahoma's Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, says these types of cases "are not common, but they do happen."

He cited incest cases where a father molests his daughter or step-daughter for years in the context of a dominating and controlling relationship.

"In these cases, there may be almost a sort of learned helplessness in which the victim feels powerless to stop what is happening or to say no," Chaffin said.

"This can even be complicated by the fact that, in some instances, the victim may come to initiate sexual behavior. Still not what one would describe as a happy relationship or a love affair, and the relationship often retains a clearly exploitive stain carried forward from its abusive origins."

AP writers Michael Hill, Michael Virtanen in Albany, and AP Basketball Writer Jim O'Connell and AP National Writer David Crary in New York contributed to this report.