AUBURN — Just one day after going public about his alleged sexual abuse at the hands of a former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach, a Lewiston man was testifying in court as a defendant accused of sexually abusing a youth.

Zachary Tomaselli, 23, was in Androscoggin County Superior Court on Monday testifying at a hearing on his motion to keep from trial statements he made during an interview with a Lewiston police detective.

Tomaselli was indicted in April on 11 counts by an Androscoggin County grand jury. Four felonies and seven misdemeanors comprise the indictment, which includes gross sexual assault, a class A felony, tampering with a victim, a class B felony, and two counts of unlawful sexual contact, class C felonies.

Tomaselli is seeking to have his videotaped interrogation with Detective Ronald Dumont thrown out, arguing statements he made during the interview were coerced. Both Tomaselli and Dumont took the stand under oath during the morning hearing. Tomaselli apparently hadn’t been read his Miranda rights and hadn’t been under arrest at the time of the interview.

Justice MaryGay Kennedy reviewed the three-hour videotape in her chambers. Closing arguments in the case were continued to Wednesday.

Tomaselli told The Associated Press on Sunday he signed an affidavit accusing Syracuse former associate head coach Bernie Fine of molesting him in 2002 when he was 13 years old. Fine, 65, was fired Sunday from his position at Syracuse. Two other men had stepped forward alleging that Fine had also molested them.

Tomaselli spoke Monday on the local courthouse steps about his recent revelations about the nine-year-old incident.

He said he had been living in upstate New York when he and his father met Fine at an autograph session in November 2001 or possibly earlier at Syracuse University. Fine called Tomaselli’s father, Fred, the following year to invite his son to go on a trip to Pittsburgh to watch a game in late January.

Tomaselli said he rode on a Syracuse University team bus to Pittsburgh and met Fine at a hotel where the team was staying.

He said one of the team’s college-aged assistants was in charge of him on the bus, but couldn’t remember any names. He had “very, very limited” contact with them, he said.

After a team dinner, Fine came up to the hotel room and asked Tomaselli to masturbate in front of him, then touched Tomaselli on his stomach and chest while the two watched pornography on TV. Tomaselli said he was sitting on a bed with Fine seated next to him when Fine fondled him “four to five times.”

“He had all sorts of explanations and stuff of why he was doing this,” Tomaselli said.

The incident continued until about 3 a.m. when Tomaselli fell asleep.

“I don’t know if he continued after that or not,” he said.

The next morning, Fine watched as Tomaselli showered, telling him to leave the door open so that Fine could make sure Tomaselli didn’t slip and fall.

Syracuse lost to Pittsburgh at that day’s game, he said.

Tomaselli said he couldn’t recall the name of the hotel, but said it was more urban than any place in Watertown, N.Y., where he had been living. He ate macaroni and cheese at a buffet-style dinner for the team.

Fine hadn’t had any contact with Tomaselli for a year, when he invited Fred and Zachary Tomaselli to the Syracuse-Pittsburgh game on Feb. 1, 2003. Following a “miraculous” upset, Fine met with father and son at court-side and invited them to his home. Tomaselli said his father couldn’t go because he had to go to work that night at Hancock Field Air National Guard base in Syracuse.

Tomaselli went to Fine’s home where he was asked by the coach to sleep in the same bed with him. Fine’s wife, Laurie, who was standing nearby, overheard Fine’s request and heard Tomaselli decline the request, he said.

His wife said, “No, he can sleep wherever he wants to,” Tomaselli said. She didn’t appear surprised by her husband’s request, Tomaselli said.

“Afterwards, he didn’t really try to force me into anything,” said Tomaselli, who slept on the couch.

The next day, Fine drove Tomaselli to the air base.

“I never spoke with him again,” Tomaselli said.

Tomaselli said he is withholding some details of the two incidents from his public interviews in an effort not to interfere with the investigation. He said police were trying to corroborate his story.

Police searched Fine’s home after hearing from Tomaselli, whose allegations may be the only ones that might result in criminal charges against Fine due to the statute of limitations, according to published reports.

Asked what specific items police might have been looking for, Tomaselli said: “Nothing that I know of.”

He gave police detailed descriptions of the interior and exterior of Fine’s home, he said.

It’s a two-story house located in a suburban cul-de-sac. “A nice house, but not a mansion,” he said he told police.

Inside the home, there was nothing in the decor that suggested Fine was a basketball coach. There was a big-screen TV (not a flat-screen) and a leather couch, he said.

He didn’t think about what happened in the hotel room until the Penn State sex-abuse scandal broke recently, prompting Tomaselli to go to police.

“It took until 2008 for me to even realize that what had happened to me was even inappropriate,” he said. He had been talking to his friend, Rose Ryan, who “had gone through some similar things.”

Ryan, who accompanied Tomaselli to the courthouse Monday, reportedly gave police a sworn statement saying Tomaselli had confided Fine’s abuse to her two years ago.

He said he told his grandmother about his father’s behavior, including “bare-bottom” spankings when he was 13 years old. She told Tomaselli that wasn’t normal. He was surprised.

“I’m kind of learning as I go what’s appropriate and what’s not,” he said.

He said he filed for a protection from harassment order from his father a couple of years ago in a Maine court. He said he told police that his father molested him, but waited for the statute of limitations to expire before making the allegations because his mother and siblings depend on his father financially, Tomaselli said.

Fred Tomaselli told The Associated Press that his son never had any contact with Fine and never went to Pittsburgh to a game.

The charges pending against Tomaselli stem from his alleged sexual abuse of a local boy who was younger than 14 at the time.

According to the Androscoggin County grand jury indictment, Tomaselli started subjecting the boy to sexual contact in August 2009.

On Aug. 1 and then several times over the next two weeks, Tomaselli is accused of exposing himself to the boy. According to court documents, that activity advanced later in the month to touching and sexual contact. Then, on Aug. 22, investigators say Tomaselli began engaging in sex acts with the boy.

Tomaselli continued sexually abusing the boy into late summer of 2009, court documents said. In the summer of 2010, on the first of July, Tomaselli is accused once more of subjecting the boy to sexual contact.

Then, in September 2010, investigators say Tomaselli learned he was being investigated in the matter and that he attempted to convince the alleged victim to withhold information.

It wasn’t clear how Tomaselli first came into contact with the alleged victim at a camp where he worked as a counselor.

Tomaselli was convicted on a charge of furnishing liquor to a minor on July 18, 2010, and was fined $500.

— Managing editor/days Judith Meyer contributed to this report